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S2 Ep 76: Motivating Your Kids

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How Binar Motivation Is Looked at at School?

"I think that without being explicit about it, we send a message," she says. "We ask you to do everything at school. We don't let you specialize." She adds: 'One way we can just shave off some of that demand is to feel like you can hate it'

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Speaker 2
going back to motivation, if a kid feels like they're motivated to do the classes they like, they're not motivated to do the classes they don't like, are we setting up a little bit of culture where that kid is like, i guess i'm not the kind of learner that that is internally motivated, because i only, you know, like what i like. I don't like what i don't like. We setting them up to sort of question themselves because we're questioning those kinds of kids. I don't even know the answer, because i hadn't really thought about how binar motivation is looked at, especially when it comes to school. Yes,
Speaker 1
well, i do think. I think that without being explicit about it, we send a message, and kids get the message that, and especially the highly conscientious students, get the message that they really should like it all, and it's on them if they don't. And i think that's a place, you know, we talk about how stressful school could be for kids and how much we worry about the stress on them. Nd, they're large structural issues that we have to solve. But i actually think, you know, thinking about liksay, your older daughter, who's this highly conscientious kid, and is the kind of kid, at not knowing her, you know, wo canso easily internalize this idea like, i really shouldn't feel like i don't want to do the work ever. To say to students like that, oh, no, no, of course there will be work that you either never like or don't always like. That's just normal, like, that's expectable. We ask you to do everything at school. We don't let you specialize. To even just grant them that that like, that fact, right? Bcause the way i think about it is like, you don't have to pretend to like all the work. You just have to do the work. And i think, i think there's a lot of energy tha kids exert either in pretending to like it, cause they think that's the expectation, or feeling worried about themselves because they don't likeit all. And so as we launch into another school year and we think about kids and stress and anxiety, and we especially think about kids who may be in very ambitious or demanding programmes. One way we can just shave off some of that demand is to feel like you can hate it. That's all right. Do it like it seems so small, but if you multiply that over a conscientious student's week, that's lot of time, an energy thay could get back, or a lot of worry and energy they don't have to expend.

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