HOW TO GIVE YOUR KIDS A GROWTH MINDSET

As parents, we want to inspire greatness in our kids. We want our them to love learning and confidently overcome the difficulties they encounter throughout their lifetime. Developing a growth mindset is key to this success. As a homeschool parent, we plant the seeds of the growth mindset with how we encourage and praise our kids. Learn what to do and what to say to nudge kids away from a fixed mindset and towards a growth mindset with host Janna and guest Amy Milcic. Also, learn why you need to take on a growth mindset yourself!  ★★★ LISTENER COUPON CODE Request your coupon code to use on any purchase at bookshark.com. QUOTABLES Janna: "...what I love is in a growth mindset, you just expect some failure. And that's real, right? That is real." Amy: "Another thing that's really great to do with your kids is to ask them a question to get their feedback, so that you're paying attention and that you've noticed the effort that they put in. So let's say for example with the handwriting. [You say,] 'Wow, the way that you fit your letters in between those lines today! How did you do that? Tell me what you did to make that happen.' And just phrasing the effort, phrasing what they thought about doing in order to make that happen. Because you might see somebody pick up a pencil and write. There's a lot of different steps that have to go on in your brain to make that happen. And so that also helps your kids slow down and say, 'Oh, wait a minute. Yeah, today I got my pencil and I just...' walking through all of that." Thanks to show sponsor BookShark. Request a homeschool curriculum catalog or download samples at bookshark.com. TIMESTAMPS 02:01 Introduction of special guest Amy Milcic from Rock Your Homeschool 05:49 Definitions of growth vs. fixed mindsets 08:38 Growth mindset is realistic and accepts the negative. 11:23 How the stories we tell ourselves or the stories we grew up hearing inform our perspective, especially labels. 12:51 How to apply a growth mindset day to day in your homeschool. First, how to handle resistance or frustration.  15:06 How to build on past success to foster the growth mindset. 17:12 Parents need to shed a lot of the public school mentality. 19:04 How the growth mindset applies to you as a parent when you face hard things! 20:47 The way we think is a continuum from growth to fixed mindset. Sometimes triggers plunge us back into a fixed mindset. 23:01 The analogy of riding a bike and turning obstacles into rewarding (fun, even?) challenges. 24:51 Expecting things to be easy or expecting things to require hard work. 28:19 Modeling your mistakes, being transparent about your own failures and how you resolve them. 33:11 The best ways to praise kids. 41:09 Growth mindset prepares kids to handle feedback and criticism (constructive or not) in the real world.  44:54 Growing doesn't always feel good. Sometimes it feels meh or bad.  46:51 Amy suggests two books to learn more: Mindset: A New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck  Grit by Angela Duckworth