Growth Mindset & Resilience: Raising Capable Humans
Build resilience, celebrate effort, and help your child see challenges as opportunities
Fixed mindset says "I can't do it." Growth mindset says "I can't do it yet." That one word changes everything. These games help you recognise and nurture your child's unique strengths, shift your praise from results to effort, and teach resilience through challenge. You're not raising children who need everything to be easy. You're raising humans who know they can figure hard things out.
Praise Power-Up
Learn which praise builds resilience, and which creates fragility
How It Works
Not all praise is created equal. Some praise builds resilience and effort. Other praise creates fear of failure and dependence on external validation. This game teaches you to spot the difference and upgrade your praise vocabulary.
Fixed Mindset Praise
Focuses on traits, labels, outcomes. Creates fear of challenge.
Growth Mindset Praise
Focuses on effort, strategy, progress. Builds love of challenge.
Your Task: Sort 12 praise statements into Fixed or Growth categories. Get instant feedback and learn better alternatives.
Progress: 0 / 12 sorted | Correct: 0
Growth Mindset Maze
Navigate real parenting challenges with growth mindset choices
How It Works
You'll face a challenging parenting situation. At each decision point, you'll choose between fixed mindset and growth mindset responses. Your choices create a path through the maze, leading to different outcomes. See how your mindset shapes your child's experience and learning.
Remember: There's no "wrong" choice, only different outcomes. This is about learning, not judgement.
Choose Your Challenge:
Strengths Finder
Discover and name your child's unique superpowers
Every Child Has Strengths
Every child has strengths, including neurodivergent children who often possess incredible gifts that traditional settings don't recognise. Some strengths are obvious (academic achievement, athletic ability). Others are hidden (deep focus on passions, pattern recognition, emotional sensitivity, creative problem solving, fierce loyalty). This tool helps you identify and name the strengths you see in your child so you can nurture what's already there.
Remember: Schools reward a narrow set of strengths (sitting still, following instructions, academic performance). But there are countless ways to be brilliant. Your job? See the whole child, not just the parts the world currently values.
Check the strengths you see in your child
Learning from Mistakes
Turn failures into growth opportunities with the right questions
How It Works
Mistakes are only valuable if we extract the learning. This game shows you how to guide your child through reflection after a mistake, turning shame into insight. You'll see two approaches—one that creates shame and defensiveness, one that creates genuine learning.
The Learning Framework:
1. What happened? (Fact-gathering, not blame)
2. What were you trying to do? (Understand intention)
3. What got in the way? (Identify obstacles)
4. What will you try differently? (Forward-focused learning)
5. What did you learn? (Extract the lesson)
Choose a Mistake Scenario:
Perfection vs Progress
Is your perfectionism holding you (and your child) back?
How It Works
Perfectionism disguises itself as high standards, but it's actually fear in disguise. This assessment reveals your perfectionism patterns as a parent and shows you how they're affecting your child. You can't teach growth mindset if you're trapped in perfectionism yourself.
The Difference:
Perfectionism:
"I must be perfect or I'm worthless. Mistakes prove I'm failing."
Progress Mindset:
"I'm learning and growing. Mistakes are data, not failure."
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