Year-End Reflection: Why Kids Benefit from Reviewing the Past 12 Months
Year-End Reflection: Why Kids Benefit from Reviewing the Past 12 Months
At the dinner table each night I ask my children questions about their day to reflect on their successes and their failures. I’m not the only one. In 2016 Meg Conley wrote an article for Huffington Post’s ‘The Blog’ entitled We Ask Our Children the Same 3 Questions Every Night . Conley asks her children three specific quesitons: How were you kind today? How were you brave today? and, How did you fail today? This line of questioning asks young people and their parents to reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and how to approach the next day from a different perspective in order to be more successful. As a STEM educator and a Gifted and Talented Interventionist, these self-relections are great examples of growth mindset: the belief a person can learn more or become smarter by working hard and persevering. Self-reflection promotes brain growth, here’s how!
