How to Praise Your Kids
Posted : Dec - 22 - 2009 @ : 9:57 am | Filled under: Character Development
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“Research on kids’ confidence and intelligence has discovered that smart kids who were aware of their intelligence do not always translate their academic abilities into emotional strength. Kids who scored extremely high on their IQ tests and were praised for their smartness were less likely to try new tasks that seemed hard for them.”
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Some amazing research has been done to help parents and teachers develop strong minded, self-confident, optimistic, resilient and compassionate children, and studies done on the effects of how we praise and motivate our kids show we will develop either instill a “growth” or “fixed” mindset according to Professor Carol Dweck.Character Education begins with the us, the primary caregivers (mom and dad) gaining an understanding how to praise and motivate our children. These articles by Ronit Baras contain extremely valuable information for all parents and teachers that will motivate and inspire them to provide their children with the tools to be, do and have everything life has to offer.
The Ultimate Kids Guide to Happiness is now available. FREE for parents and teachers to download, print and GIVE to their kids. This lessons and activity book will give children between 8 and 12 years old, in a language they will understand, an introduction to emotional intelligence and the Science of Happiness and how they can start creating their life NOW!
Its time to give kids the personal growth information that American adults spend over $15 Billion per year trying to instill in themselves. Kids are in the midst of developing beliefs and thinking habits that will effect the rest of their lives and evident in the staggering number adults seeking to dispel their own self-limiting beliefs, which were developed in childhood, if we help our kids develop empowering beliefs about themselves now using this emerging science, we can alter of so many kids lives and our planets future for the much better.
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Thank you for pointing to my post, Pat. I agree with you that parents are responsible for building their kids’ characters and that the best education is given at home by Mom and Dad.
Ronit