Helping Your Child Develop a Positive Academic Self

Key points

School involves a lot of different skills; almost nobody is great at them all.

Reinforce the academic skills that your child does naturally so they become aware and proud of them.

It is often better to reward the effort, not the outcome.

Negative academic self-concepts can follow your child for a lifetime.

When encouraging children to become excited about learning, it is very important to help them develop a positive academic self-concept . A person's academic self-concept is the way they identify with what type of student they are. It is how you would describe yourself as a student. A person has many different aspects to their overall self-concept and likely identifies with each aspect differently. For example, every person will identify with their athletic , artistic,