Has this ever happened to you? It’s time to get ready for bed. You tell your child this. She says she doesn’t want to go to bed. You say, “It’s time. You have to get up for school tomorrow.” “I don’t want to go to school,” she says. “You have to go,” you say. “I […]

I recently listened to a Hidden Brain podcast that covered the pros and cons of awards. In one discussion of how awards can backfire, the host described a study of 15,000 California students, where those students who received awards for perfect attendance quit working so hard and instead started to attend school less often! One […]