Tag: Appreciative Inquiry

• Raising Gritty Kids

  What is Grit? I was first introduced to the concept of “grit” while watching the movie True Grit. If you haven’t seen it, 14-year-old Mattie Ross leaves her home in Illinois alone to find the man who killed her father in Arkansas. She finds Rooster Cogburn and declares him the man with the “grit” necessary […]

  mindyqs

  April 17, 2015

  Kids, Tween Chronicals

  Angela Lee Duckworth, Appreciative Inquiry, Carol Dweck, David Cooperrider, Giving kids grit, Grit, parenting, successful kids

• Failure As An Option

  No one likes to fail. We do everything we can to avoid it.  We fear failure so much that as parents we do everything in our power to prevent our children from that feeling of having your heart crushed in your chest. But sometimes we need to fail.  In Homework Without the Yelling I touched […]

  mindyqs

  February 16, 2015

  Kids

  Adam and Jamie, Appreciative Inquiry, batman, coaching kids, discovery, failing, failure, failure is always an option, free range parenting, jk rowling quote, mythbusters, parenting risks