Testing the limits: Teaching our kids to be tenacious

THERE is not a day goes by that we don’t see or hear an item relating to Generation Snowflake and its lack of grit. The oft (and unfairly) criticised group, also known as Millennials, are, according to some, a lost generation when it comes to backbone. So what hope for the future?
According to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, we can teach our children to be tenacious from an early age. Researchers at the institute conducted experiments with 262 children aged 13 to 18 months.