MOTIVATION AND CHILD PERFORMANCE

Praising and encouraging your little one is key in their development and success in life. It's also important to know when to give your child praise and what to say, so we've come up with these 8 guidelines for praise effort.

Research shows that praising effort over intelligence or talent, produces high achievers (Dweck 2007). Praising our children for intelligence can actually hurt motivation and performance. We all want our kids to have the “Kandoo” attitude so let’s fill their minds with “success supplies” and praise their effort!

Ways to Increase our Children’s Motivation and Performance in School and Life:

*Teach your child that EFFORT is the key to success in life.
*Share your success stories that emphasize hard work.
*Praise your child for sticking to a task that took focus and hard work.
*Encourage your child to try something new and challenging.
*Help your child associate mistakes with learning NOT failure.
*Read books together that have themes of hard work and success.
*Teach your child that the brain is like a muscle and will get stronger with use.
*Tell your child that she is her brain’s agent and only she has the power to improve it!

TYPES Of MOTIVATION
There are two types of motivation ,intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, but I will start with one

1)Intrinsic or Self-motivation :
It is the wish to do or explore something without the motivation of an external reward ("do your homework, and you can play your game for thirty minutes") or the threat of an external punishment ("don't do your homework, and you'll go to bed early"). It's the internal drive of motivation that drives us on, and makes us want to achieve (rather than "coasting", doing the bare minimum to avoid censure)
Next I will write on the second type of motivation.
Do parents have a role to play in their children's performance?
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