Hey Sons, What's Your Mindset?

Enjoying their summer at a local waterpark...hopefully cultivating a healthy mindset and attitude. ☺

I came across this great article called Questions to Ask Your Kids To Help Them Have Good Mindsets and thought, why not go ahead & interview my children to see where their mindsets are.  I made sure not to help them with any answers, even if I had to wait a while before I received their responses--my 9 year old had the biggest trouble with the first question. I wanted their answers to come directly from themselves--straight from the heart. I also asked them the questions separately so they did not hear the other brother's answers before their own.  Here are their answers:

The 12 year old
First question: What five words do you think best describe you?

• Creative
• Talented
• Smart
• Skilled
• Thoughtful

Second question: What do you love doing that makes you feel happiest?  Playing with Lego. And I love spending time with my family.

Third question: What do you know how to do that you can teach others? Play the bass.

The 9 year old
First question: What five words do you think best describe you? 

• Creative
• Responsible
• Loyal
• Funny
• Happy

Second question: What do you love doing that makes you feel happiest? Spending time with family, sometimes just talking and taking vacations. Love playing with Lego and building stuff, playing with Wrecking Ball and Skylanders. And I love Ghirardelli Brownies.

Third question: What do you know how to do that you can teach others? How to be friendly and to teach people to do the same. I can also teach them creative building tips.

I love that both boys find spending time with family very valuable in their lives. It validates the deliberate choices the husband and I have made to put family first above all things.  Cultivating a good self-esteem is an ongoing process and I thought this was an interesting exercise for me to gauge the mindset of my sons. And as a new tradition, I will be asking these same questions at about this time next year! Looking forward to see what changes and what will remain consistent.

Here's to a great year of good mindsets!


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