Encouraging young children “to help” rather than asking them to “be helpers” can help instill the character trait of persistence as they struggle to work through challenging daily tasks, according to a new study by researchers at New York University.
The team found that using verbs to talk about actions, such as encouraging children to help, read, and paint, may help increase resilience following any setbacks they might experience rather than using nouns to talk about identities;...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/10/16/asking-kids-to-help-rather-than-be-helpers-can-instill-persistence/138932.html
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