Parenting during a Pandemic: Tips for Parents Home for Extended Time Periods
March 31, 2020 by Shannon
Social Distancing at home with the Kids? Here are some great tips by SDT expert Wendy Grolnick.
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New Book Release: ‘Goal Setting and Motivation in Therapy: Engaging Children and Parents’
October 12, 2015 by Steph Green
The anticipated new book ‘Goal Setting and Motivation in Therapy: Engaging Children and Parents’ by editors Jenny Ziviani, Anne Poulsen & Monica Cuskelly has just been released! Including a foreword by Richard Ryan, the book highlights the importance of goal-setting and goal pursuit in children’s therapy, rendering it a vital motivational component. It involves principal...
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Slate Magazine: Experts Say Not to Bribe Kids. I’ll Give you $10 and Stale Candy if You Prove Them Wrong
January 15, 2013 by Shannon
January 15th 2013. “Dr. Deci, now a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said the biggest problem with tangible rewards is that they actually work, at least in the short run. “If you want somebody to do something, and if you have enough money, you can get them do it,” he said....
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New York Times: Train a Parent, Spare a Child
January 11, 2013 by Shannon
January 11th 2013. “Dr. Deci, now a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, said the biggest problem with tangible rewards is that they actually work, at least in the short run. “If you want somebody to do something, and if you have enough money, you can get them do it,” he said....
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The Straits’ Sunday Times (Singapore): Richard Ryan comments on “Should You Reward Your Child for A Grades?”
April 1, 2012 by Shannon
April 1st 2012. Say you are a parent trying to get your son to aim for all A*s in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE). To get him to work hard, you promise him a reward – a trip to Disneyland or the sleek, new iPad, $150 for every A*. Sounds like a sure-win strategy,...
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CBS MoneyWatch: Kids and Money: 5 Ways to Instill Good Habits
May 12, 2011 by Shannon
May 12th 2011. Try it. You’ll like it. It’s a lie that parents tell their kids all the time, and it’s usually about food. But now there is evidence that even if kids don’t like, say, an icky vegetable, if you can get them to keep sampling the food eventually they will grow to enjoy...
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NEW YORK TIMES: When a Parent’s ‘I Love You’ Means ‘Do as I Say
September 14, 2009 by Shannon
September 14th 2009. “In 2004, two Israeli researchers, Avi Assor and Guy Roth, joined Edward L. Deci, a leading American expert on the psychology of motivation, in asking more than 100 college students whether the love they had received from their parents had seemed to depend on whether they had succeeded in school, practiced...
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