Parenting in the Digital Age

You've heard it before. To overcome a difficult task, sometimes you need to give yourself a pep talk. You have to be your own “I can do better” cheering squad. And a recent study published in Frontiers in Psychology found the motivational technique promising.



In a study that involved an impressive 40,000 participants, researchers tested three motivational methods to find out which yielded the best result: self-talk (telling yourself “I can do better”), imagery (imagining yourself improving) or if-then planning (which has a basic structure of “if I do this, then this would happen”).

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Want to promote a growth mindset in your child? Here are other ways to do just that as given by Dr. Sarah McKay, neuroscientist and founder of The Neuroscience Academy:
Embrace failures.
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Let your child know when they’re demonstrating a growth mindset.
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Explain that the brain is a muscle.
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Avoid telling a child she’s “smart,” “talented” or “gifted.”
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Praise the process not the results.


Source: smartparenting.com