Psych for Life®

Persistence Improvement Module – Part 1 of 6 

00:00:00:00 – 00:00:28:01

Kate

Hi, I’m Kate from Psych for Life. As parents, we often ask ourselves, how do we help our children persist? How do we help our children overcome failure? And how do we help our children reach difficult? Join us as we talk to Dr. Kelsey Luca and explore ways to incorporate persistence into our everyday routines.

 

00:00:28:12 – 00:00:43:15

Dr. Lucca

We think that persistence is working hard to overcome a challenge and that can be any kind of challenge that we’re faced. Persistence when we talk about it in infancy and childhood, it’s a little bit more specific. It’s a little bit more focused. We’re thinking about how do we overcome the challenge that we’re presented with in the here and now?

 

00:00:44:04 – 00:00:51:00

Dr. Lucca

How we adapt and handle and face challenges is an important predictor of how well we’re going to do in life.

 

00:00:53:16 – 00:00:57:23

Dr. Lucca

Persistence is really important in infancy and early childhood because it provides that foundation.

 

00:00:57:23 – 00:01:06:04

Kate

It will teach you how to find opportunity is to help your child learn persistence, and we’ll show you some tips and techniques you can use.

 

00:01:07:04 – 00:01:15:11

Dr. Lucca

One factor that’s really important in promoting persistence is a type of feedback that they receive when they’re persisting, when they’re working hard to overcome challenges.

 

00:01:15:21 – 00:01:23:18

Kate

Together, we’ll explore how to use skills like process centered praise and how to demonstrate persistence through our own actions.

 

00:01:24:16 – 00:01:39:08

Dr. Lucca

Failure is an inevitable part of success, and getting kids to realize and learn that failure is part of the process is very important. There are all these different ways we can teach our children. They’re going to remember those messages and they’re going to take it with them when they face their own challenges.

 

00:01:39:19 – 00:02:01:12

Kate

So to learn more techniques for how and when to help our children learn persistence. Join us as we explore this module together. Helping our children learn this skill will support them now and for the rest of their lives.




00:00:00:00 – 00:00:28:01

Kate

Hola, soy Kate de Psych for Life. Como padres, a menudo nos preguntamos, ¿cómo ayudamos a nuestros hijos a persistir? ¿Cómo ayudamos a nuestros hijos a superar el fracaso? ¿Y cómo ayudamos a nuestros hijos a llegar a lo difícil? Únase a nosotros mientras hablamos con la Dra. Kelsey Luca y exploramos formas de incorporar la persistencia en nuestras rutinas diarias.

 

00:00:28:12 – 00:00:43:15

Profa. Lucca

Creemos que la persistencia es trabajar duro para superar un desafío y que puede ser cualquier tipo de desafío al que nos enfrentemos. Persistencia cuando hablamos de ello en la infancia y la niñez, es un poco más específico. Es un poco más centrado. Estamos pensando en cómo superamos el desafío que se nos presenta aquí y ahora.

 

00:00:44:04 – 00:00:51:00

Profa. Lucca

Cómo nos adaptamos, manejamos y enfrentamos los desafíos es un predictor importante de qué tan bien nos irá en la vida.

 

00:00:53:16 – 00:00:57:23

Profa. Lucca

La persistencia es muy importante en la infancia y la primera infancia porque proporciona esa base.

 

00:00:57:23 – 00:01:06:04

Kate

Le enseñará cómo encontrar oportunidades es ayudar a su hijo a aprender a ser persistente, y le mostraremos algunos consejos y técnicas que puede utilizar.

 

00:01:07:04 – 00:01:15:11

Profa. Lucca

Un factor que es realmente importante para promover la persistencia es el tipo de retroalimentación que reciben cuando persisten, cuando trabajan duro para superar los desafíos.

 

00:01:15:21 – 00:01:23:18

Kate

Juntos, exploraremos cómo usar habilidades como el elogio centrado en el proceso y cómo demostrar persistencia a través de nuestras propias acciones.

 

00:01:24:16 – 00:01:39:08

Profa. Lucca

El fracaso es una parte inevitable del éxito, y lograr que los niños se den cuenta y aprendan que el fracaso es parte del proceso es muy importante. Hay todas estas diferentes maneras en que podemos enseñar a nuestros hijos. Van a recordar esos mensajes y lo van a llevar consigo cuando enfrenten sus propios desafíos.

 

00:01:39:19 – 00:02:01:12

Kate

Entonces, para aprender más técnicas sobre cómo y cuándo ayudar a nuestros hijos a aprender la persistencia. Únase a nosotros mientras exploramos este módulo juntos. Ayudar a nuestros hijos a aprender esta habilidad los apoyará ahora y por el resto de sus vidas.




How do I improve my child's persistence?

Persistence is a foundational skills for success throughout life.

In this module, we will cover:

  • Why is persistence important?
  • What is persistence?
  • How do we model this for our kids?
  • How does persistence set our children up for success?
  • When do we not want our children to persist?

Why is persistence important?

Meet our expert

Kelsey Lucca

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, ASU
EXPERT

Meet Kelsey

Dr. Kelsey Lucca is an expert on child development and conducts research as the primary investigator of the Emerging Minds Lab at Arizona State University. 

Meet our host

Kate Gigax

HOST & FOUNDER, DEVELOPMENT CORPS
HOST

Meet Kate

Kate is a certified Executive Coach, Facilitator, and the Founder of Development Corps.

She has designed and facilitated workshops, team off-sites, and training sessions on a range of topics including executive presence, trust, accountability, effective teams, coaching skills, and dealing with different personalities.

Funding for the development of this module was provided in part by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award given to Kelsey Lucca (BCS 2047194) “Cultivating Curiosity to Promote Learning and Discovery”

  1. Mokrova, I. L., O’Brien, M., Calkins, S. D., Leerkes, E. M., & Marcovitch, S. (2013). The role of persistence at preschool age in academic skills at kindergarten. European journal of psychology of education, 28(4), 1495-1503. Chicago
  2. Lucca, K., & Sommerville, J. A. (2018). The little engine that can: Infants’ persistence matters. Trends in cognitive sciences, 22(11), 965-968.
  3. Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2012). At 6–9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(9), 3253-3258.
  4. Gunderson, E. A., Sorhagen, N. S., Gripshover, S. J., Dweck, C. S., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Levine, S. C. (2018). Parent praise to toddlers predicts fourth grade academic achievement via children’s incremental mindsets. Developmental Psychology, 54(3), 397–409. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000444
  5. Ainley, M. (2019). Curiosity and interest: Emergence and divergence. Educational Psychology Review, 31(4), 789-806.
  6. Leonard, J. A., Lee, Y., & Schulz, L. E. (2017). Infants make more attempts to achieve a goal when they see adults persist. Science, 357(6357), 1290-1294.
  7. Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. A. (2020). Infants rationally decide when and how to deploy effort. Nature human behaviour, 4(4), 372-379.
  8. Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. A. (2019). Keep trying!: Parental language predicts infants’ persistence. Cognition, 193, 104025.
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