Creative Child January 2018 | Page 28

editor’s choice 5 STRATEGIES for Helping Your Child Develop a Growth Mindset BY: Rebecca Eanes Carol Dweck is a world-renowed psychologist at Stanford University. She has conducted decades of research on achievement and success, and her groundbreaking work on growth versus fixed mindset is sweeping the U.S. and U.K. Known as “the mindset revolution,” parents and educators are setting out to teach children how to develop a growth mindset. But what exactly does that mean? 27