Author Topic: In the news today.  (Read 3770 times)

Lupita

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Re: In the news today.
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2007, 06:47:44 PM »
Thank you friends. Thank you for your support. It went better than many days. How long will it last? I do not know. Hopefully at least a couple of weeks, or till after spring brake. Then prepare for semester exams, students get crazy at the end of the year. But it went well today. Not wonderful, but better than it was going before. Frist period listen for some minutes and worked with me for some minutes and I let them talk in a lower voice as a rewar for the last seven minutes of the class. It is nice to come home and feel that we did a good job.
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Re: In the news today.
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2007, 07:17:22 PM »
Lupita,

I'm just curious and interested...are your students special needs or foreign students? 


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« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2007, 07:30:24 PM »
My students are very intelligent Seniors going on to college next year, around 17, 18, 19 years old. They think they own the world. No special needs. No foreigns. Just rich spoiled kids. I teach in a private school. of course, I am talking about the ones that make me suffer everyday because they do not want to work and recent the fact that I am teaching. I have 170, only 10 are bad. 160 are wonderful. I probably need to focus more on the good ones and ignore the badones.

Lupita

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Re: In the news today.
« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2007, 06:43:09 AM »
Origin of the Behavior

Narcissism generally results from extremes in  child rearing, curiously from either pampering or neglectful rearing. Excessive praise of children can create feelings of superiority, of greatness being an entitlement, and seeing people as a source of praise. Similar feelings can arise from the opposite rearing where there is parental indifference and neglect. This rearing deficiency gives rise to a compensatory need for greatness, affirmation and adulation to make up for obvious deficits in child rearing. While the overly praised child may have delusions of grandeur, the neglected child may develop this outward appearance of being great, to fill the actual internal void.

http://topcondition.com/images/mymindfield/narcissism.htm


Leah

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« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2007, 08:14:35 AM »
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Narcissism generally results from extremes in  child rearing, curiously from either pampering or neglectful rearing

Hi Lupita,

What a brilliant find - thank you for posting it.

Supports your thoughts expressed here, mine also.

Will enjoy perusing this information with a cuppa (need a break).

Hope your day goes well.

Take care.

Leah xx


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« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2007, 10:07:00 AM »
Entitlement or Cluelessness?

Last summer, soon after I finished writing _Generation Me_, my (home) phone rang at 9am on a Sunday morning. The caller asked for Dr. Twenge, and I cautiously said "Yes?" It was a high school age girl. "My name is X, and Y [someone I had never heard of] at SDSU is a friend of our family. He said you might be able to help me with my school project on Z." Still not really understanding what was going on, I asked her to repeat what she said. I then said, "It's Sunday, and I'm at home. Could you e-mail me about this? That would be much better."

Sure enough, an e-mail was waiting for me on Monday morning, asking for help with the project. As you might imagine, my schedule is pretty full already, so I sent her two of my research articles that addressed many of her questions (and which, I might add, could have been easily found in the university library).

A year later, I am still somewhat agape at the entitlement, and some might say rudeness, inherent in this interaction (the calling at home on a Sunday, in addition to the general problem that I should not be doing high school projects for students who should do them themselves.) Or was she just completely clueless? Or clueless in her entitlement?

http://genme.livejournal.com/

Found the above interesting, which I read from the posted link earlier on in this thread   http://www.generationme.org/aboutbook.html


synopsis ~ reviews ~ blog ..........

http://www.amazon.com/Generation-Americans-Confident-Assertive-Entitled/dp/0743276973/ref=cm_lmf_tit_3/002-0356774-7048878
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Lupita

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Re: In the news today.
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2007, 05:26:08 PM »
Totally agree with you Leah. Of course there is the neglect origin but also the opposite.
Love your post. very interesting. That Dr. Spock had a little to do with it also. I rememeber hearing abour that. I was not lucky. I did not get the benefits of Dr. Spock. But I know people who did.
Thank you Lea.