When children believe that they can improve skills and learn from their mistakes, they are less afraid of taking risks. Find a few ways to support a child’s and parent’s mistakes with phrases like these:

“Making mistakes helps you learn what not to do next time.”

“It takes a lot of mistakes to get something right.”

“When you try new things, it’s normal to make a lot of mistakes.” 

Share the handout below with families to help them adopt this growth mindset at home! And discover hundreds of parent facing handouts on our provider portal at mountsinaiparenting.org/providers

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