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FIXED-MINDSET CHILD:
They were worried I might be a bad kid.
GROWTH-MINDSET CHILD:
They wanted to help me learn ways of doing it
better next time.
All  kids  misbehave.  Research  shows  that  normal  young  children  misbehave
every three minutes. Does it become an occasion for judgment of their character
or an occasion for teaching?
Q:
Imagine that your parents were unhappy when you didn’t share with other
kids. Why would they be this way?
FIXED-MINDSET CHILD:
They thought it showed them what kind of person I
was.
GROWTH-MINDSET CHILD:
They wanted to help me learn better skills for
getting along with other kids.
Children learn these lessons early. Children as young as toddlers pick up these
messages from their parents, learning that their mistakes are worthy of judgment
and punishment. Or learning that their mistakes are an occasion for suggestions
and teaching.
Here’s  a  kindergarten  boy  we  will  never  forget.  You  will  hear  him  role-
playing different messages from his two parents. This is the situation: He wrote
some  numbers  in  school,  they  contained  an  error,  and  now  he  tells  us  how  his
parents would react.