Growth Mindset
When I first became a mom, I was under the fixed mindset assumption regarding my children's educational achievement. I was driven by results when it came to their education instead of their efforts. It was not until my youngest daughter, who is brilliant, started to struggle in the fifth grade. My husband and I started to notice her lack of interest in participating in school, challenges, and learning anything new. We did everything we knew as parents to do to help her succeed, not recognizing that how we were so-called helping her was part of the problem. We were not trying to help her learn, but we were pressuring her to bring home A's & B's. After several failed attempts, we decided to get her tested, luckily for us, the school my daughter attended offered several different types of learning test. The results showed that our daughter, although failing fifth grade, was learning on a sixth-grade level. We were confused and intrigued at the same time. The counse...