The Guardian – Madonna King
“The tendency of young girls – and, often inadvertently, their parents – to put a ceiling on their talents frustrates educators the length and breadth of our nation. The principal of Korowa Anglican Girls’ School in Melbourne, Helen Carmody, sees this journey, for many girls, as part of their search for identity. They take on the messages of those around them, and that can quite quickly deliver very closed options for themselves. Carmody, and almost everyone else canvassed, raises the issue of whether we might compliment our children too much. “I think parents tell them a lot of what they’re good at. You know, rather than rewarding them for the work that they do, or for the challenges that they face, or the things they try, there is that whole constant praise thing,” she says.” (more)