Rachel Darling

Growth vs Fixed Mindset Praise

Growth vs. Fixed Mindset

  • December 9, 2021 at 11:51 AM
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A great way to encourage growth mindset in a child is to provide praise.  When you praise a child, it rewards them and makes them feel good about themselves.  The best way to use praise with a child is to praise their process and their efforts.  This encourages them to realize that even if they make mistakes, how they go about it and how they stick it out is what is important.  If you praise a child's intelligence or abilities, they begin to tie that in as a conditional feeling and will worry about making mistakes and not being worthy of praise.