Mindsets for Parents: Strategies to Encourage Growth Mindsets in Kids

by Mary Cay Ricci, Margaret Lee

Overview

All parents want their children to be successful in school, sports, and extracurricular activities. But it's not just about giving your kids praise or setting them on the right direction. Research shows that success is often dependent on mindset. Hard work, perseverance, and effort are all hallmarks of a growth mindset. That's where Mindsets for Parents: Strategies to Encourage Growth Mindsets in Kids comes in. Designed to provide parents with a roadmap for developing a growth mindset home environment, this book's conversational style and real-world examples make the popular mindsets topic approachable and engaging. It includes tools for informally assessing the mindsets of both parent and child, easy-to-understand brain research, and suggested strategies and resources for use with children of any age. This book gives parents and guardians powerful knowledge and methods to help themselves and their children learn to embrace life's challenges with a growth mindset and an eye toward increasing their effort and success!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618215246
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/09/2022
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	432,735
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Mary Cay Ricci talks about mindset and how important it is to change your thinking in order to change your life to teachers, parents, and students across the country. She's worked for school districts in Maryland and has taught courses for Johns Hopkins University. She's also the New York Times' best-selling author of "Mindsets in the Classroom: Building a Culture of Success and Student Achievement in Schools" and several other books.

Margaret Lee is an education administrator and consultant in Maryland. Over the last 20 years, she has been a teacher, professional learning specialist, and school administrator.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Chapter 1 What Are Mindsets and How Do They Affect Our Children? 1

Chapter 2 What Is the Role of Parents in Developing a Growth Mindset? 13

Chapter 3 How Do Our Praise and Feedback Impact Our Children's Mindsets? 33

Chapter 4 Why Is it Important for Children to Understand How the Brain Works? 51

Chapter 5 How Can We Develop Perseverance and Resiliency in Our Children? 69

Chapter 6 What About Mindsets at School? 81

Chapter 7 How Can I Develop a Growth Mindset for My Child in Sports and the Arts? 101

Chapter 8 What Are Some Growth Mindset Experiences That I Can Try at Home? 121

Final Thoughts 139

Appendix A Answer Keys 141

Appendix B Growth Mindset Poster 147

Appendix C Discussion Questions for Book Club 149

Appendix D Mindsets for Parents Workbook 153

References 161

About the Authors 167

Editorial Reviews

Often a simple change in what we do reaps great rewards. Lee and Ricci illustrate how a switch from "people praise" to "process praise" leads to increased motivation, acceptance of new challenges, and the realization that errors are simply roadmaps pointing to the direction of learning as the power of Yet is embraced. As teachers and parents, isn't this the mindset we hope for our children?

Patrice M. Bain, Ed.S., co-author, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning and Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning; author, A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching

Meg Lee and Mary Cay Ricci do something quite rare -- they speak both the language of the child and the language of research, without an accent in either. This is an accessible, intelligent and practical guide to understanding what goes on under the hood of a young person's mind and motivation, and it provides many hours of reflection to the dedicated reader.

Tom Bennett, Founder, researchED

Parenting is the hardest job on the planet. Likewise, the research around mindset is sometimes complex and confounding. Authors Meg and Mary Cay manage to shine a light and provide a brilliant clear path on how to navigate both in this practical evidence-based book that every parent should read.

Bradley Busch, chartered psychologist and director of InnerDrive

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