How can you help your child develop a growth mind-set?

Praise carefully – not for intelligence but for effort. 

Try to focus on the processes they used; their strategies, effort, or choices. 

• What did you learn today?
• What did you try hard at today?
• What mistake did you make that taught you something?
• What was a challenge today?
• What did you practice today?
• Encourage deliberate practice and targeted effort
• Encourage the children to stretch themselves with challenging tasks
• Discuss errors and mistakes and help your child to see them as opportunities to learn and improve
• Have family discussions about mind-set and which mind-set they (and you?) are choosing to use.
• Teach children to think positively and to believe in themselves
• Redefine the meaning of a few ordinary words:
• Effort is… the secret to getting smarter
• Difficult is… challenging – an exciting opportunity for risk taking and having a go
• Mistakes are … learning opportunities