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...Most students can see a distinction between their performance and their feeling of adequacy," Catlin says. "A particularly difficult situation is when a person bases his or her self-esteem in a very narrow area of performance--like, say, ice skating--especially if they've been told that they were the best in high school...
...curriculums of the immense role played by Spaniards in early colonial America. Up to now they have been all but shunted out of view behind the screen of Anglo founder- images (the Pilgrim Fathers, Raleigh in Virginia). This can do good, not because it may pump up the "self-esteem" of Hispanic schoolchildren (the purpose of history is not to make people feel better), but because it accords with a large truth shrouded, at present, in omissions and lies. Columbus himself has been presented as Castilian, Catalan, Corsican, Majorcan, Portuguese, French, English, Greek and even Armenian. He was, in fact...
Recovery is not easy. The messages my mother filled me with had to be replaced with self-esteem. It is a tedious task. For me it involved five weeks of intensive treatment and many hours of outpatient therapy. At times I have felt enraged that I have to endure such pain. Today I feel only sadness -- and hope. Hope for me, for my children, for the many people engaged in this incredible battle. I promised my children years ago that I would break the cycle of incest that has haunted my family, and now that's happening. I only regret...
Worse than the loss of money are the feeling of betrayal and the erosion of esteem for priests among many parishioners. The potential for such spiritual devastation escalated considerably last week, as a federal civil lawsuit was filed against Honolulu bishop Joseph A. Ferrario, 65, the first member of the U.S. hierarchy to face a sex-abuse suit. A spokesman for the bishop said in response, "These are old allegations, made by the same people. The bishop has denied them every time...
...selected 123 children ages three and four to take part in an experimental program. All came from families at the poverty level. Half the group was given two years of preschool instruction, 2 1/2 hours a day, five days a week for 30 weeks. The aims were increased self-esteem, socialization and curiosity. Formal learning was not a high priority. The "control " half was given no preschooling. After the preschooling program ended, the kids were tracked through the rest of their school careers to adulthood...