Why Children Succeed In School

What makes children succeed and why does it matter. I have been reading a book called how children succeed by Paul tough. In Paul there were many examples of how some children succeed the examples of how curiosity self-control and optimism can help children succeed in school and even in life. that he gave that stood out to me were self-control curiosity and optimism. I think that if children use all three of these characteristics they will succeed in life and in their education. self-control is a major part of child development, it is important because without self-control the child would can get out of hand and hard to handle and be rebellious which would lead to the child not paying attention in school and most likely to get failing grades. Children who can stand in line and wait their turn in a board game or wait till Christmas or their birth …show more content…
The thing that curiosity and being optimistic has in common is it makes your mind open and observant of new ideas. If your optimistic you keep a good up beat tempo and this is helpful in education in 2 ways. the first reason is that the good up beat vibe gives your teacher the impression that you are ready to learn. The second is that being optimistic leads to having a growth mind set, it leads to a growth mind set which means you can learn from your mistakes you make but being optimistic also mean for example if you fail a test you don’t actually fail you see it’s an opportunity to get better and you aren’t upset that you failed. In paul toughs book it quotes a book called learned optimism in this book it states that “optimism is a learnable skill, not an inborn trait” I see this statement as a true statement. Why} I believe that optimism along with self-control are things you learn or gain over time and not a born trait you can get from either parent. But I belive that a parent can teach their children theodicy’s of being optimistic at a young