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Cultivating a Growth Mindset in Youth: A Deep Dive

  Fostering a growth mindset in youth is a transformative approach that prepares them to face challenges with resilience, optimism, and adaptability. It shifts the internal narrative from “I’m not good at this” to “I can improve with effort.” This mindset, first popularised by psychologist Carol Dweck, is based on the belief that intelligence and abilities are not static traits but can be developed over time through practice, learning, and persistence. Critical to this change is how young people view failure and effort. In many environments, mistakes are viewed as a weakness. But a growth mindset redefines failure as feedback and effort as a path to mastery. To establish this culture, it’s important to normalise struggle as an essential part of growth. This can be done through story telling sharing the journeys of inventors, artists, or athletes who excelled after failure, which reinforces the principle that progress comes from perseverance. Language plays a powerful role:  E...

Empower Families as the First Line of Defence from Social Evils.

  INTRODUCTION Every human being comes from a family. Many families together make up a society. And in every society, the family is the basic unit where values are taught, character is built, and emotional strength is nurtured. When families thrive, communities thrive. Yet, in our rapidly changing world, families often face challenges that threaten to shatter their unity and undermine their moral foundation. Social evils such as drug abuse, violence, exploitation, corruption, and moral degradation often take root where the foundation has been weakened. This is where families must emerge—not as passive victims of social degradation, but as active defenders and restorers of moral and spiritual integrity. A Strong Mindset Makes a Safe Family Empowering families begins with this recognition: they are not only recipients of social influences, but also capable agents of change. Every home has the potential to become a bastion of grace, love, and truth—a place where children are imbued wi...