With exam season about to start, we are all looking at ways to help our children to succeed but could we be hindering them by praising their talent instead of their effort? This week we're running a Q&A with Matthew Syed, all about best ways to motivate your kids.
Times columnist, three-times commonwealth table tennis champion and award winning author of Bounce, Matthew is hoping to help parents motivate their children by applying the philosophy he writes about in Bounce. In Bounce he dismisses the idea that talent is the key to success. He argues that David Beckham wasn't born with an innate free-kick ability but it came about as a result of hard work and practice and the path to the top is a combination of opportunity being in the right place at the right time and hard work.
So is it possible for all children to achieve grade A* Maths, given the right opportunity and guidance?
Send in questions to Matthew about motivation, his own success and Bounce and ask him how you can help motivate your children ahead of their exams. We'll link to his answers from this thread the following week. We have five copies of Bounce to give away to those who send in questions and will announcing the winners on Monday.