Motivation For The Success In Child Development, By Paul Tough

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There are different ways in which people believe that children will succeed in life. In this book the author has his own idea and motivation for the success in child development. Before they were having “two year olds filling out worksheets and completing drills on letter and number recognition (Tough, 2013, p.xiii). Now they believe child development should be different and not how they used to do it before. When they just wanted children to memorize everything and put so many things in their little brains. There are many factors affecting a child’s development that Tough speaks about like, stress and attachment issues. The author, Paul Tough, has a great motivation for writing this book that will be discussed further in this essay. Changing Going from thinking that in order for “a child to be successful is that a child should have primary cognitive skills” (Touch, 2013, p.xiii). To “helping [children] develop a very different set of qualities…. Like, persistence, self-control, curiosity, conscientiousness, grit, and self confidence” (Tough, 2013, p.xv). Cognitive skills are also important in their development, but it should not be based solely on that, but on all of the other qualities mentioned above. His main purpose is also to solve the problems that we have been doing wrong for so long that will help a child develop to be successful in Some parents do not know any better because they have an attachment history themselves and that can hurt their children. It is never to late to change and to form a secure attachment with their children and this will make a big difference in a child’s life (Tough, 2013, p.41). Speaking about parenting Tough’s motivation for writing this book and doing so much research is his son. Tough decided to go look into preschools as soon as his son was born. When he went to observe he knew that his son Ellington had been born at a time when everyone wanted to have their children as young as two years old in the best preschool’s they had. They also wanted them to learn so many things at such a young age that they were not focusing on all of the other important qualities that they should know to become great adults and have a successful

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