Why Parents Should Listen To Kids
Across
- 2. The hurdles in life that overprotective parents try to completely wipe away.
- 4. The type of mental functioning (EF) that helps kids learn to plan, make decisions, and achieve goals.
- 8. The animal used in the cage experiment described at the start of the talk to illustrate learned helplessness.
- 9. What the speaker emphasizes kids must experience and learn from, even if it hurts, to truly understand danger.
- 10. A type of parent who clears every obstacle from their child's path, named after a heavy snow-clearing machine.
- 11. A major psychological struggle experienced by over half of the students in the cited study.
Down
- 1. The behavioral trait kids develop when their parents always tell them no.
- 3. The communication method recommended by the speaker instead of parents just shutting down ideas.
- 5. The enclosure made of barbed wire that the animal eventually stopped trying to escape from.
- 6. An isolating feeling reported by 57 percent of the college students surveyed.
- 7. The emotion felt by over 84 percent of college students raised by snowplow parents.
- 12. The fundamental quality the young speaker asks parents to have in their kids so they can learn to conquer difficulties.