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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2760" data-attributes="member: 1"><a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/05/974069925/are-we-raising-unhelpful-bossy-kids-heres-the-fix" target="_blank">Are We Raising Unhelpful, Bossy Kids? Here&#039;s The Fix - NPR</a>It was a simple experiment. Lucia Alcala, a psychologist, built a tiny model grocery store with aisles and different items that she could put on a family&#039;s dining room table.She and her colleagues brought the model store to 43 family&#039;s homes along California&#039;s Central Coast. Each family had a pair of siblings, ages 6 to 10.She gave the siblings clear instructions: Find an efficient route through the store to pick up a list of grocery items and — this was made clear — &quot;work together, collaborate and help each other,&quot; says Alcala, of California State University, Fullerton. &quot;We gave them very specific instructions.&quot;<a href="https://multiplex.videohall.com/presentations/1346" target="_blank">Alcala and her colleagues logged what happened</a>. Did the siblings help each other? Did they boss each other around? Did the older ones exclude the younger ones from the task?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2760, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/05/974069925/are-we-raising-unhelpful-bossy-kids-heres-the-fix'][B]Are We Raising Unhelpful, Bossy Kids? Here's The Fix - NPR[/B][/URL] It was a simple experiment. Lucia Alcala, a psychologist, built a tiny model grocery store with aisles and different items that she could put on a family's dining room table. She and her colleagues brought the model store to 43 family's homes along California's Central Coast. Each family had a pair of siblings, ages 6 to 10. She gave the siblings clear instructions: Find an efficient route through the store to pick up a list of grocery items and — this was made clear — "work together, collaborate and help each other," says Alcala, of California State University, Fullerton. "We gave them very specific instructions." [URL='https://multiplex.videohall.com/presentations/1346']Alcala and her colleagues logged what happened[/URL]. Did the siblings help each other? Did they boss each other around? Did the older ones exclude the younger ones from the task? [/QUOTE]

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