{"id":9187,"date":"2016-01-22T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:30:42","slug":"step-by-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2016\/01\/22\/step-by-step\/","title":{"rendered":"Step by Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We need to remember that an appreciation for challenge, and a belief that we can find a way to change, learn and grow, can\u2019t itself be fixed in place. Instead, we all struggle with fear and discouragement at times. Sometimes we run toward new experiences. Sometimes we have to find a way to learn something we really did not want to learn. Sometimes, some part of us is always on the floor, sobbing: \u201cI can\u2019t. I\u2019m bad at this. I\u2019ll never get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So how do you raise a child with a growth mind-set, along with a nice healthy appreciation for where it came from and the will to keep it strong? By applying the encouraging messages of the growth mind-set to yourself. I\u2019ll borrow, out of context, another phrase from Dr. Dweck: \u201cThe point isn\u2019t to get it all right away. The point is to grow your understanding step by step. What can you try next?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-K.J. Dell&#8217;antonia, <a href=\"http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/21\/nice-try-is-not-enough\/\">&#8216;Nice Try!&#8217; is Not Enough <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need to remember that an appreciation for challenge, and a belief that we can find a way to change, learn and grow, can\u2019t itself be fixed in place. Instead, we all struggle with fear and discouragement at times. Sometimes we run toward new experiences. Sometimes we have to find a way to learn something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,28,30,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-humanities","category-quotes","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9188,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions\/9188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}