Motivating Children
Blogger's personal photo When you think about the importance of inspiring your children, what comes to mind? For me specifically, the phrase “actions speak louder than words” runs through my head. Children who have warm and caring parents that they can trust are more interested in listening and learning from them. If we take the opposite approach and demand or use excessive force with our children, we will often see them rebelling and in a negative mindset. The idea of mindsets (fixed or growth) and teaching our children about grit go hand in hand with the process for motivating children. We want to strive to encourage and teach our children how to obtain characteristics necessary to endure and increase stamina in good times and bad. One way to accomplish this is teaching them to have grit. Grit is character building and strengthening by putting forth the effort and not gliding by on “natural talent”. It is persistence, achievement, passion, commitment, zest for
