Blythe Grossberg > Quotes

“tenet of executive functioning is to first determine your priorities and then take action.”
― Blythe Grossberg, Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults: Exercises to Help You Get Organized, Stay Focused, and Achieve Your Goals

“I realize she just needed someone to talk to, and her mother outsourced it to me. Her cries echo into the empty white apartment and drop on her perfectly positioned Limoges boxes made out of fancy French porcelain with golden springs.”
― Blythe Grossberg, I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

“Carol Dweck believes that kids can get into a fixed mindset in which they are not open to taking on challenges and improving because they are afraid of failing. She encourages parents and teachers to foster a "growth mindset" among children so that kids see their capabilities not as static but as ever-improving with effort. She thus recommends praising kids' attempts rather than their results to keep them hungry to try and achieve more, as kids who are only commended for their achievements may become afraid of no longer achieving.”
― Blythe Grossberg, I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

“Experts believe that the children of affluent suffer twice as much depression as the kids in the South Bronx or East New York. The findings are robust.These affluent kids are like hothouse flowers, who are propped up by their parents and support staff but who know that they can't measure up.”
― Blythe Grossberg

“It's a survival of the fittest mentality. While kids in the inner city truly compete to see who will make it out alive, kids in high-acheiving schools also have this type of mentality and think, 'There are only a few choice colleges or careers. My loss is your gain, and your gain is my loss.”
― Blythe Grossberg, I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent

“Recent research has shown if you incorporate ten minutes of meditation a day into your routine, you’ll improve your attention.”
― Blythe Grossberg, Executive Functioning Workbook for Adults: Exercises to Help You Get Organized, Stay Focused, and Achieve Your Goals