Connection

A. What do you think about GRIT?

• Angela Duckworth defines grit as passion (being singularly obsessed) plus perseverance (always trying to improve). By this definition, do you think you have the marks of grit? Why or why not?
• Some grit is self-determined (like the friend who takes on the motto “Treadmill or die”), while other grit is born of trauma (like a person getting stage four cancer at age 35.) How did you learn grit? Who did you learn it from? Who supports you now when hard things happen?
• You must know some people who are successful thanks to having grit. Can you talk about one of them?

B. What can we do to grow our children’s grit?

Watch this video, and share some ways you plan to do to grow grit for your kids.