Mindsets for Parents: Strategies to Encourage Growth Mindsets in Kids

by Mary Cay Ricci

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Author: Mary Cay Ricci

Publisher: Prufrock Press

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ISBN 10: 1618215248
ISBN 13: 978-1618215246

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!

Review

I think using the ideas in this book about how to praise students and give them feedback in order to encourage a growth mindset can help lead students to discover they have many more talents than they realized . . . I enjoyed reading this book and will probably read it again. I felt like I got some wonderful, practical ideas that I can use when working with math students and with teachers who work with students, my own children, and even my nephews. If you interact with children at all, I would strongly recommend this book. --Lori Hochstetler, MiddleWeb

This thorough study of a method for helping children learn and succeed should be of interest to adults looking for guidance in these areas. --Vicki Foote, Children's Literature

The authors succeed in relating the research and guidance in a very understandable way in a succinct 150 pages. Their advice and examples will appeal to a wide target audience of parents, ranging from those with young children to college-age youth. Ricci and Lee provide many illustrations about how parents' feedback can focus on children's effort, strategy, and persistence rather than assumed inherent abilities. --Steven A. Meyers, APA PsycCRITIQUES

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.