Carol S. Dweck Quotes

What we found was that the greater proportion of process praise, the more likely the child was to have a mindset five years later that welcomed challenges and that represented traits as malleable, not a label you were stuck with.

Some people are just self-motivated - my husband was. I also believe there are many children for whom parental involvement is key.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Children need continuity as they grow and learn.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

But once I went for it, left my inhibitions aside and saw its eventual success, it made me much more comfortable and eager THIS time around to take it to a whole new level.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.

If you tell children they are bad, that's what they believe they are and that's probably what they will become.

Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional.

I think hype is a good thing. You need it and it'll teach you valuable things and you'll grow stronger, which is what I've done.

Westerners often laud their children as 'talented' or 'gifted', while Asian parents highlight the importance of hard work. And in fact, research performed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck has found that the way parents offer approval affects the way children perform, even the way they feel about themselves.

Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.

It is the parent's job to see how their child learns and to make sure that the children's self confidence is buoyed at all times, or they will plummet like a stone.

The healthy child has to have something to look forward to.

We want to develop this can-do mentality.

When you have solved the problem of controlling the attention of the child, you have solved the entire problem of its education.

People criticising does spur you on. You are always going to get critics.

You want to do everything you can so your child has every tool to succeed.

The best way to motivate me is to tell me I can't do something.

We're finding that many parents endorse a growth mindset, but they still respond to their children's errors, setbacks or failures as though they're damaging and harmful. If they show anxiety or overconcern, those kids are going toward a more fixed mindset.

If more students use self-compassion to reframe their failures, they may discover more nourishing sources of motivation and healthier strategies to pursue their goals.

Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.