1. Empowering Skills to Develop your Kids
Being Gifted Parents
Empowering Skills to Develop your Kids

2.
Every good parent wants their kids to do well in school, and go on to do awesome things as adults in life. 
manual
And while there isn't a ready manual for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to several factors that predict success.
parents
Unsurprisingly, parents play an extremely crucial role.

3. Critical inquiry paper was focused on the research question
Critical inquiry paper was focused on the research question
Is there a consistent parenting style that exist among parents of high ability children in Singapore in terms of
parental perception of academic achievement,
level of involvement in supporting academic instruction,
ways of managing their children’s behaviour in terms of their academic school work,
their role in school work, and
ways of communication between themselves and the school teachers?

4. Here's what parents of successful kids have in common:
Here's what parents of successful kids have in common:
daddy
mommy

5. Dad & Mom (They) make their kids do chores.
Dad & Mom (They) make their kids do chores.
Learning that work has to be done & that each one of us must contribute for the betterment of the whole in the family
Become employees who collaborate well with their colleagues, are more empathetic because they know firsthand what struggling looks like, & are able to take on tasks independently
By making them do chores — taking out the garbage, doing their own laundry — they realize I have to do the work of life in order to be part of life

6. They teach their kids social & emotional skills.
They teach their kids social & emotional skills.
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University and Duke University tracked more than 700 children for 20 years from across the US between kindergarten and age 25 & found
a significant relationship between their social skills as kindergartners & their success as adults 20 years later.
be helpful to others
understand their feelings
resolve problems on their own
cooperate with their peers without prompting

7. They have high expectations.
They have high expectations.
Expectations parents hold for their kids have a huge effect on attainment
Parents who saw college or university in their child's future seemed to manage their child toward that goal irrespective of their income and other assets
This is known as the Pygmalion effect which states "that what one person expects of another can come to serve as a self-fulfilling prophecy." 
In the case of kids, they live up to their parents' expectations.

8. Parents have healthy relationships with each other.
Parents have healthy relationships with each other.
Children in high-conflict families, whether intact or divorced, tend to fare worse than children of parents that get along.

9. They teach their kids math early on.
They teach their kids math early on.
A study found that developing math skills early can turn into a huge advantage.
Mastery of early math skills - of beginning school with a knowledge of numbers, number order, and other rudimentary math concepts - predicts not only future math achievement, it also predicts future reading achievement.
Math tests critical, logical, analytical & reasoning skills!

10. = They develop a relationship with their kids.
They develop a relationship with their kids.
A study found that children who received "sensitive caregiving" in their first three years not only did better in academic tests in childhood, but had healthier relationships and greater academic attainment in their 30s.
investments in early parent-child relationships =
long-term returns that accumulate across individuals' lives
A young teen at between13 to 16 years old tend to behave like when he/she was at between 2 to 4 years old! Lots of whining!

11.
They're less stressed.
Emotional contagion — or the psychological phenomenon where people "catch" feelings from one another like they would a cold — helps explain why.
Research shows that if your friend is happy, that brightness will infect you; if she's sad, that gloominess will transfer as well.
So if a parent is exhausted or frustrated, that emotional state could transfer to the kids. 

12. They value effort over avoiding failure.
They value effort over avoiding failure.

13. Growth They value effort over avoiding failure. Fixed Mindsets games
They value effort over avoiding failure.
assumes that our character, intelligence, & creative ability are static & that we can't change in any meaningful way
success is of inherent intelligence
avoiding failure at all costs become a way of maintaining the sense of being smart or skilled
Fixed
Mindsets
thrives on challenge
sees failure not as evidence of un- intelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities. 
Growth
games
puzzles
If kids are told that they aced a test because of their innate intelligence, that creates a "fixed" mindset. If they succeeded because of effort, that teaches a "growth" mindset.

14. brave in the face of challenges & failures
They teach ‘grit’.
a powerful, success-driving personality trait called grit
brave in the face of challenges & failures
brave in taking responsibility for all actions
brave in keeping my promises
brave in taking a decisive action
Grit is what sustains interest &effort toward very long-term goals.

15. Why do we care about good parenting?
Why do we care about good parenting?
Why do we send our kids to all kinds of good enrichment? …
Every good parent wants their kids to do well in school, and go on to do awesome things as adults in life.

16. ~ different magnitudes
Brave
Gratitude
Big-hearted
~ different magnitudes
你敬我一尺，我敬你一丈！

18. Water, Consciousness & Intent: Dr. Masaru Emoto
Show your children your love
Tell them you love them
‘Transfer’ strong positive & loving thoughts to them

19. How to create passion in our children
How to create passion in our children
How to provide inspiration to our children
How to communicate positively to our children
Best practices for managing work and children's needs
How to deal with the terrible twos and threes
Best ways to engage the pre-teen/teens
Old style parenting and the new style parenting - which works best?
Three things we should do with our children starting now
How to build perseverance in our children
Let’s Learn Together
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