I Can't Do That, YET: Growth Mindset

I absolutely love this book! It is so positive and promotes courage and a growth mindset in children. A must have!

Yesterday was virtual school orientation day for my girls (5,5,10). I read this book to my girls after. They were all attentive throughout. We talked about many things they could be and why they need to try and learn new things. We are using this book as our motto for virtual schooling this year and have placed it on our piano's stand.Working in IT for 12 yrs in my past career, I really enjoyed the technical graphics and story. With my girls now using laptops for schooling it was a nice tool to use to explain how technology touches so many careers. Also we spoke about the characters and what thier professions were, which was interesting because they can go so many different directions. Maybe the lapwork person was a grad student working in a lab looking to find a cure to coronavirus and the character next to her was a professor, a scientist taking notes? Great work on this one. Loved that it wasn't dumbed down language wise!(Though my 10 yr old thought the main character was crazy and may have had a phycological issue seeing so many of her future self's.)

Bought this for a 5-6 year old audience, but will be returning the book. Love the growth mindset concept of “I can’t do this YET” and have used it in a middle school math classroom to help build kids’ confidence that they can master anything with perseverance.However, there’s a mismatch between the young heroine, who can’t read the opening page of her bedtime story (yet), and the computer programmer vocab of the Older Self she meets in a dream. Only older kids (maybe 4th grade?) could make sense of the plot, so the age mismatch is a killer for me.Expensive paperback. Author needs a better understanding of her target age group.

This book really touched my heart!I love the story and the illustrations are really good. No girly/pinkish stuff.It is about a young girl, who lacks selfconfidence. The book shows children in a very easy and brilliant way how to overcome your doubts and to develop a growth mindset. It does not matter, if they can not do something, because it only means that they can not do that, yet! But they can learn how to do things.I highly recommend this book to every parent/grandparent...who want to encourage their kids not give up too easily and believe in their own abilities to learn and grow.One of my favourite parts of this book is also that the little girl is into computer programming - a male dominated science/ job field in our culture.Girlpower! ;-)Thank you for this wonderful book!

Brilliantly written book. I had a knot in my throat and eyes full of tears half way through. We need adults and children to be told they yes they can do it. I would have preferred to not have complicated words like servers and code not mentioned so as to make it more straightforward for a 5 yr old. I just changed them to computer and internet in my reading :)