Word: esteem
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...then I had a sudden rush of self-esteem. Feeling like the villainous Dr. Evil, I thought to myself, "I'm hip, I'm cool, I'm with it"; and I burst onto the scene. I had no idea at the time that I was joining a Free Hemp protest, but the festival's ideological affiliations are of little concern to me. I had fun, and I wondered why it had taken me three years to discover life outside of Harvard...
...less willing to take risks and have trouble weathering any sort of failure. Kids who receive praise for their hard work and persistence tend to blame failure not on a lack of ability but on not trying hard enough. "This encourages them to sustain their motivation, performance and self-esteem," says Dweck...
Boys today are in trouble too. They are locked into rigid classroom routines before they are ready; their rambunctious behavior, once thought normal, is now labeled pathological, with such diagnoses as attention-deficit disorder and hyperactivity. They lose self-esteem and lag behind girls in reading and writing--erupting in violent behavior, killing themselves more often than girls. It all makes headlines, spawns research projects and prompts calls for remedial measures...
...spate of books such as Peggy Orenstein's Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap and Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia, which spent nearly three years on best-seller lists, triggered a surge of creative solutions. A corporate-sponsored program, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, spread across the U.S. in an effort to encourage girls to examine varied careers. In Lincoln, Neb., teacher Jane Edwards partners with a local architectural firm to challenge high school girls to use technology, math and science to solve design problems. In Aurora, Colo., middle school teacher Pam Schmidt has created Eocene...
...deal is finally done, and, after legislative aides spend their weekend proofreading the bill, it will come before the House for a vote Tuesday afternoon. "Mr. and Mrs. America," boomed a suddenly populist Armey, "your surplus is intact." That was more than could be said for the Republicans' self-esteem. Although the majority party could claim a few victories, most of the spoils of these tedious negotiations have gone to the side that was supposed to be in the most trouble: the White House...