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Drive it Home - Growth Mindset

Drive it Home - Growth Mindset

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Your child didn't decide she wasn't creative: a grade did, a comparison did, sometimes you did, casually, in passing. This episode is about the story you carry about yourself and how it becomes the first model your child works from. The ceiling you walk under is the one they think is normal.

This episode draws in part on research in:

  • How parents' responses to failure — not their beliefs about intelligence — predict whether children develop a fixed or growth mindset (Haimovitz & Dweck, 2016)
  • Intergenerational transmission of math anxiety: parents who are anxious about math and help with homework increase their children's anxiety and reduce their achievement (Maloney, Ramirez, Gunderson, Levine & Beilock, 2015)
  • Observational learning: children acquire beliefs, attitudes, and behavioral patterns by watching significant adults in their lives (Bandura, 1986)
  • Parental praise given to toddlers predicts children's motivational frameworks — growth or fixed — five years later (Gunderson, Gripshover, Romero, Dweck, Goldin-Meadow & Levine, 2013)
  • Expectancy-value theory: how parents' beliefs about their children's competence shape children's own academic self-perceptions (Wigfield & Eccles, 2000)

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