Comments on: On raising kids who are more than “hoop jumpers”: A teenage TED speaker’s mom on how she encourages her sons to innovate https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 04:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 By: Jami https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/#comment-939334 Jami Tue, 30 May 2017 05:16:22 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5415#comment-939334 I loved how you fostered their ideas and growth and allowing them to accept a “no” as a tool to reframe an idea instead of taking it as a rejection. You are a truly loving and supportive mom. I have an almost 11 year old who has his head stuck in video games most of the time. Not only does this create a lack of imagination but also a very sedentary lifestyle. I was a teacher for 12 years but struggle with how to inspire him. He has been in gifted classes and taken a coding class after

]]> By: Chi https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/#comment-905484 Chi Mon, 25 Apr 2016 02:17:58 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5415#comment-905484 Great article.
But by calling Jack “Edison of our time”, did they mean “Tesla of our time”? Because Edison stole Tesla’s discovery and even trashed his discovery of Alternating Current, which could have changed our life even more tremendously.
Calling the teenager “Edison of our time” is no different from saying he stole another kid’s invention and claimed his own.

]]> By: Kits https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/#comment-905282 Kits Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:50:33 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5415#comment-905282 We NEED to stop having parents create ‘cookie cutter’ kids! No society/ college/ school/ company/ wants hordes of people with same set of skill sets!

]]> By: Katie Botten https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/#comment-799203 Katie Botten Thu, 30 Apr 2015 08:56:38 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5415#comment-799203 In 1931, the deaths of Thomas Edison outpourings of public grief, but our “Edison of our times” Jack Andraka will buy joys and continue missions of Edison.

]]> By: Tina Anderson https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/#comment-795706 Tina Anderson Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:34:46 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5415#comment-795706 I work for an NGO that supports vulnerable university students in Congo, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. Sometimes the traditional eductaion in these places can be rote memory or not as engaging as one would hope. So we expend a lot of energy trying to encourage our students to grow their skills and expand their abilities outside the traditional school environment. For most of our students, their parents never even graduated from High School, so they do not know how to help their children step into their full potential–so we often step into the gap. Thank you for sharing your wonderful ideas and encouragement. I have emailed this to our entire program staff and am hoping they will read it and take some things away from it.

Thank you so and continued success to you and your family!

]]> By: Murtada Abuzaid https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/#comment-795539 Murtada Abuzaid Mon, 27 Apr 2015 04:54:42 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5415#comment-795539 What a great Advice! Thanks

]]> By: jane mullins https://blog.ed.ted.com/2015/04/23/on-raising-kids-who-are-more-than-hoop-jumpers-a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate/#comment-795184 jane mullins Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:53:26 +0000 http://blog.ed.ted.com/?p=5415#comment-795184 I feel that this is so serendipitous, I have two sons 9 and 10 and all the kids around them live their lives on their xboxes, I feel sometimes that we are the only parents who are concerned about this. Our oldest son is so creative and has a scientific brain and reads reads and reads but he wants to fit in with the others. I need to find a balance, this has given me more hooe to know that we are right to ration time on these screens and do absolutely lots of other things, music, experiments, designing (youngest son loves architecture) etc
thanks for this
Jane

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