‘Lazy’, ‘messy’, ‘smart’: how labels affect a child’s personality development

‘Lazy’, ‘messy’, ‘smart’: how labels affect a child’s personality development

By Montserrat Magro Gutiérrez, Universidad Nebrija and Paula Contesse Carvacho, Universidad Nebrija Words have a direct impact on the formation of a child’s identity. By labelling children, for example categorising them as “lazy” or “clever”, we may actually be doing them a disservice. We might see ourselves as benevolent architects of their future, but we might, involuntarily, be holding them back. There is a delicate balance […]

May 8, 2024 50

Africa

My parents are from two different African countries: study shows how this shapes identity

More than a third of migration in sub-Saharan Africa happens within the continent. This mixing of people means that some children have parents of different national origins. Yet not enough is known about the lives of these children: how they form their identity and what impact migration has on them. The majority of research on second generation African immigrants focuses on understanding their experiences in the global north. Our research […]

March 3, 2024 12