Love this amorphous identity concept, curious to continue to think long and hard on the principles and environment and peers to allow for developing this. And even just how and what we praise … and how to shift - it’s not easy - re it’s so natural and easy as parents to praise the outcome (good job, they did a puzzle, entries the alphabet, etc), but takes intention to praise the effort, keeping at it, or unique/creative ways to approach a problem or situation
Love this amorphous identity concept, curious to continue to think long and hard on the principles and environment and peers to allow for developing this. And even just how and what we praise … and how to shift - it’s not easy - re it’s so natural and easy as parents to praise the outcome (good job, they did a puzzle, entries the alphabet, etc), but takes intention to praise the effort, keeping at it, or unique/creative ways to approach a problem or situation