Even if he is not so good now, even if he is slower than others in many aspects, even if his understanding ability is not very good, even if the teacher always tells you that he is not the material to learn.

Do you still have expectations for him?

If you can answer yes firmly, congratulations, your child has the conditions for extraordinary achievements.

Every family, every pair of parents, wants their children to be promising and become the object of praise from his population. In order to achieve this goal, parents reported many interest classes and super-long classes to their children, in order to let them walk in front of others.

However, sometimes it is not enough to rely solely on children's personal efforts. Parents' expectation, trust and love have added a lot of help to their children's growth, and even become the key to their success.

We all know that Edison was persuaded by his teacher to leave school when he was in primary school. Curious Edison was identified as a "problem child" by the teacher, but Edison's mother always believed him and encouraged Edison to prove his idea through experiments. With the support and encouragement of his mother, Edison became a knowledgeable and intelligent child, and his life-long inventions were as high as 1093.

Edison got endless love and deep expectation from his mother, and he could get tolerance, warmth and encouragement from his mother at any time and on any occasion.

When Edison failed to invent the filament for the millionth time, everyone was ready to give up. In such a desperate situation, Edison dreamed of his mother. He remembered her smile and encouragement, so he decided to try again. Finally, after 14000 experiments, he succeeded, and the filament made of dock reached the ideal 1000 hours.

And his success is inseparable from his mother's education.

We often explore from Andy's mother's educational concept. Is expectation really so powerful? Today, we will look at the positive significance of expectation effect, also called Rosenthal effect, in children's growth from the perspective of psychology.

On the power of expectation from the "Rosenthal effect"

(1) What is the Rosenthal effect?

Rosenthal effect, also known as "pygmalion effect effect" and "interpersonal expectation effect", is a kind of social psychological effect, which refers to the phenomenon that teachers' earnest hope for students can get the expected effect dramatically.

This theory was discovered by American psychologists Rosenthal and L. Jacobson through experiments in 1968.

1968 One day, American psychologists Rosenthal and L. Jacobson came to a primary school and said that they would conduct seven experiments. They selected three classes from Grade One to Grade Six, and conducted a "future development trend test" for the students in this 18 class. After that, Rosenthal handed a list of "most promising people" to the principal and related teachers in a favorable tone, and told them to keep it secret so as not to affect the correctness of the experiment.

In fact, Rosenthal told an "authoritative lie" because the students on the list were randomly selected. Eight months later, Rosenthal and his assistants re-examined the students in Class 18. As a result, a miracle appeared: all the students on the list made great progress in their grades, and they were lively and cheerful, confident and eager to learn, and more willing to deal with people.