In Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research , Carol Dweck Says (Carol Dweck) they explain the troubles that can come from parents praising there child in the case of them having a fixed mindset. It shows that in some cases if your telling your child how smart they are it may make them feel less than when they uncover a challenge at completing a certain task they may feel stupid. In The Perils of "Growth Mindset Education" [...] (Alfie Kohn) it shows theories that suggest a growth mindset may be more helpful because it shows kids to take on challenges and learn rather then just feel superior because they were born with more intelligence.
The differences between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset is the idea of a growth mindset suggest you can accumulate intelligence through work and effort compared to a fixed mindset which believes certain people are born smarter than others. I believe that I just recently started developing more of a growth mindset because I have been learning that I can better my intelligence and all around life with just more work and effort. Where as before especially in my teenage years I felt like I had more of a fixed mindset and just told myself I was dealt a bad hand and that’s why I would not do well in school and tell myself I couldn’t do things. Which in my opinion is know way to live because I feel like no matter what you been through or where you came from you are in control of your intelligence in certain situations I feel some people may have it a little bit harder but that doesn’t mean that they cant overcome the challenges and be just as smart as someone who was born with more intelligence.
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The Hiraeth is a home that no longer exists whether it be a place like your childhood home or a person who has passed away or you cannot see them for some reason or the other. I think I am really going to enjoy writing about this although it might be emotional. I recently lost someone who has been very important to me for a very long time. I considered writing about her because all I have now are the memories and both of the happiest times in my life were with her we were best friends growing up she lived two houses down from me an most of my memories as a child have her and her two sisters in them. Then after I moved a few blocks away when I was seven even though it was close we lost touch and then she came back into my life when I was twenty and we dated on and off the past six years. I consider her to be my home because I had a very rough time for a while and when I was with her it felt like everything was going to be ok and I could always be myself and feel comfortable around her because she loved me for who I am.
I think this is going to be a hard topic to write about but I am excited as soon as Dr Mangini mentioned this assignment I thought of her. One of the first things I thought of after hearing about this project is the song “Home” by Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros especially the line in the chorus of the song where it says “Home is wherever im with you” to me this line explains exactly how I feel about her and why it is so painful knowing I will never see her again. Frank Falo
In August of 2010 when I was twenty years old I was on Facebook and I saw the profile of a girl I grew up with and was friends with as a child. So we started talking and decided to meet up and we went to hang out at the golf course at the bottom of her street. Even though we haven’t talked in about eighteen years it was like we knew each other our whole life her and her sisters were my best friends until I was seven years old and moved even though I only moved a few blocks away we never really got together after that. But on this day we just talked and shared memories of when we were children and right away I knew I liked this girl. Usually when I meet someone I get anxious and nervous but since we were each others first friends I was very comfortable with her right away. For a few weeks we were with each other all the time and finally I got up enough courage to ask her out. The next year was great I never thought I would feel this way about someone else and kind of always made fun of any of my friends who spent all there time with their girlfriends but that’s all I wanted to do was spend time with her. One day after almost a year of dating we got invited to go down to her friends shore house its right on the bay in Ocean City, New jersey which is one of my favorite places because I been going down there every year with my family since I was born. We sat and drank in this old house that looked like it was about to fall apart and there was nothing really to do the bay was covered with horseshoe crabs and was very dirty so we couldn’t even sit on the beach. But just sitting around doing nothing with her was great to me I never been with a person who I could just sit in silence with. In the fall of this year she had told me she thought she was pregnant and we got a test it came back positive and I couldn’t of been more happy thinking I was going to have a family with the girl I am in love with. For five months we did nothing but talk about names for the baby and if it was going to be a boy or a girl and one night she had severe pains in her stomach and her mother took her to the hospital the next morning when she called me I didn’t even want to answer the phone because I knew it was going to be bad news finally I did and she was crying and told me she lost the baby. An I could do nothing more but promise that everything was going to be ok but I was wrong it damaged our relationship very badly. We had both become very depressed and we just couldn’t make each other happy it was very hard because it went from being one of the most happy and exciting times in my life to one of the worst in the snap of a finger. We had split up for about two years and tried dating other people and then we had got back together in the spring of 2014 and for a little while things were great again but we kept being reminded of the child we lost it started to occur to me that it was a very toxic relationship and maybe things wouldn’t work until we both got our lives together or maybe they would never work. It was very hard for me because I loved this girl very much she was like my best friend I always considered her family so over the next few years I would always try to make things work. For a while she was having issues and we weren’t really in touch but she was doing her best to get better I just wanted to give her space but I would always ask around to make sure she was alright and from what I was told she was. Then on October 19th 2016 I was at the wawa up the street from my house and it was just a normal day and my brother called me and said “Frankie you need to come home now” when I walked in my door to see my whole family waiting for me in the living room I knew it was something really bad my mom was crying and before she could even finish saying Bridget it was like my heart was ripped out and I instantly felt like I was in a daze or a dream state I couldn’t believe one of the most important people in my life was gone. I would do anything to see her again even if it was just for a minute to let her know I love her and that I am sorry I couldn’t do anymore to help her. |
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