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Teach Children to be Healthy and Happy - A prescription for child resilience

Published on August 8, 2012 by Bill Knaus, Ed.D. in Science and Sensibility Self-acceptance and confidence are a dynamite combination for any adult and any child to possess. Australian educator, Giulio Bortolozzo, shows how to use rational principles to earn this result. The rhyme, Little Jack Horner , carries a conditional-worth message: Your worth depends on what you do. For those who don’t remember, here’s the rhyme: Little Jack Horner, sat in the corner, eating a Christmas pie. He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, and said 'What a good boy am I! Is it possible that Jack was a good boy because he pulled out a plum from the Christmas pie? What if he messed up and missed the plumb? Would this make him a bad person? This illustrates the problem with conditional-worth thinking. It is often self-defeating to rate your worth according to how well (or badly) you perform at certain tasks. If you discover the plumb, that is great. If not, too bad. ...