Teens and Students need inspiration to acquire new mindset

It is not enough for parents to empathize with their children about the difficulties and challenges of growing and learning. What is required instead is to inspire the child to practice and adopt new habits. How do you do that? By fostering a sense of direction, encouraging a child to always live with a positive mental attitude, encouraging initiative, creating a pleasant environment and security. These habits if introduced to the child early in their lives will create new mindsets, positive attitude and become inherent in a child for the rest of his/her life. The child will grow having confidence and positive self-image and excel in life. It is this attitude that needs to be transmitted by both parents and educators, that will eventually build a well-grounded young adult.

The importance of career guidance in school and the need to work on the mindset of children cannot be emphasized enough. No one does this well than Edward James Olmos from the movie Stand and Deliver. This 1988 film dramatizes the work of Jaime Escalante, a dedicated mathematics teacher who leaves his steady job to join Garfield High School in Los Angeles County in California, determined to change the system and challenge the students to a higher level of achievement.

Garfield High School was a rowdy school where very little teaching and learning took place, where violence by both pupils and school officials was the order of the day. While Escalante teaches math’s 1A (basic arithmetic), he realizes that his pupils can progress, so he decides to teach them calculus. Escalante develops a programme in which his pupils can rise to take AP (advanced placement) calculus by their senior year. The challenge is that Escalante does his work in an environment where pupils are faced with poverty, high crime, drug abuse and teenage pregnancy.

With Escalante to help them, the young people soon find courage to distance themselves from society’s expectations of failure cast upon them.

Teaching and bringing up a child requires a three prong effort – A tripartite involving the parent, educator and child. The need to wake up to a purpose and to achieve a goal is fundamental to a growing child. It needs to be emphasized however, that where a child is not receptive to this tripartite, the tripartite will fail. The child’s unreadiness, and unwillingness to accept or listen to advice and guidance can jeopardize this relationship and the child will be the one who suffer the most. It is therefore important that continuous inspiration from the parent, guidance from the educator and willingness to learn from the child should always be present. It is only when all three parties understand this, and makes an effort to work at this relationship will the mindset and attitudes of teens change and the excellence expected of them, will prevail.

Justice Mandhla is the author of What they did not teach you in school: Life Long Learning Tips to land a job straight out of school and he spends a great deal of his full-time writing days researching and writing about job search strategies.

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