Do not look at what your children achieve, see that they enjoy the process

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It is important that you do not focus on what your children achieve, that is, that you do not focus only on the results ... and more on the effort they have made. Children must learn to enjoy the path more than the goal and that way they will be able to achieve anything in their life. Here are some tips to help you focus on the process.

Encourage children to read for pleasure and participate in the arts

Limit television and screen time to make room for creative activities like rehearsing a play, learning to draw, or reading books that your children like.

Gives children the opportunity to express their 'divergent thinking' in the process

Let them disagree with you. Encourage them to find more than one route to a solution and more than one solution to a problem. When they solve a problem successfully, ask them to solve it again but find a new way to do it (same solution, different route). Then ask them to come up with more solutions to the same problem.

Don't reward kids for displaying creativity

Incentives interfere with the creative process, reducing the quality of your responses and the flexibility of thinking. It enables children to develop mastery of creative activities for which they are intrinsically motivated, rather than trying to motivate them with rewards and incentives. Instead of rewarding a child for practicing the piano, for example, let him do something he likes better, maybe sit at his desk and draw or do a science project.

Don't worry about what your children achieve or do not achieve

Emphasize the process rather than the product. One way to do this is by asking questions about the process: Did you have fun? You're done? What did you like about that activity?


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