Raising the Confident Child

 

I know a guy — let’s call him Goofus . . .

Goofus is dumb. I don’t mean that in a colloquial way. I don’t mean that he’s uneducated. I mean he clearly has a subnormal level of intelligence.

The most striking thing about him though is that he’s completely unaware of his own limitations. I’ve never heard him utter anything but platitudes and nonsense but in his mind, he’s the most interesting man in the world.

So many kids by the age of 12 or so have had their confidence in their own abilities extinguished by parents and teachers, that I really have to give Goofus’s parents a lot of credit.

I’m not kidding. They raised a supremely confident idiot.

  4 comments for “Raising the Confident Child

  1. 11 Oct 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Hope it’s not me…

    🙂
    Good to see your still quick with the pen… er… keyboard.

  2. PE
    PE
    12 Oct 2008 at 4:03 pm

    HA! If you see one that says “I know a multi-talented genius…” that could be you.

  3. Dawn
    1 Dec 2008 at 3:25 pm

    I think I used to know that guy.

  4. PE
    PE
    2 Dec 2008 at 9:13 pm

    @Dawn

    Different guy.

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