Your kids will face difficult choices in their lives.
As a parent, you must help your children build critical thinking skills.
Nobody else will do it for them.
8 ways to help your CHILD MAKE BETTER DECISIONSπ§΅:
As a parent, you must help your children build critical thinking skills.
Nobody else will do it for them.
8 ways to help your CHILD MAKE BETTER DECISIONSπ§΅:
Let them take charge:
Decision-making is a skill.
One children aren't often given enough of a chance to develop.
Let them make choices of their own.
This reinforces neural pathways that are used in executive function, and more complex choices.
Decision-making is a skill.
One children aren't often given enough of a chance to develop.
Let them make choices of their own.
This reinforces neural pathways that are used in executive function, and more complex choices.
Start Small:
"What color shirt will you wear today?"
Step it up the responsibility over time:
Which park should we go to?
How do we get there?
Slow incremental decisions build confidence.
And a greater capacity for critical thinking.
"What color shirt will you wear today?"
Step it up the responsibility over time:
Which park should we go to?
How do we get there?
Slow incremental decisions build confidence.
And a greater capacity for critical thinking.
Opportunities For Failure:
You can't sugarcoat everything.
There have to be real chances for real failure.
Handling this facing what comes and growing from it..
Builds the desire to make better decisions in the future to avoid a similar outcome.
You can't sugarcoat everything.
There have to be real chances for real failure.
Handling this facing what comes and growing from it..
Builds the desire to make better decisions in the future to avoid a similar outcome.
Improvement Game:
This game is simple.
Pick anything and each add one way it can be improved.
These can be realistic, if unreasonable (recommended).
Eg add a second mug handle to pick it up from either side.
Or fantastical eg make the table float with magnets.
This game is simple.
Pick anything and each add one way it can be improved.
These can be realistic, if unreasonable (recommended).
Eg add a second mug handle to pick it up from either side.
Or fantastical eg make the table float with magnets.
This builds analytical skills that become autonomous.
And spill over to thinking through situations and making decisions based on them.
Realism is recommended because it adds the challenge of it having to be functional.
Fantastical is fun to dream up wacky ideas.
And spill over to thinking through situations and making decisions based on them.
Realism is recommended because it adds the challenge of it having to be functional.
Fantastical is fun to dream up wacky ideas.
Help them Analyze Situations:
These might be problems about to happen..
Things that are happening..
Or things that have happened.
Ask them questions about the issue or what could be done differently.
This builds preemptive analytical skills.
These might be problems about to happen..
Things that are happening..
Or things that have happened.
Ask them questions about the issue or what could be done differently.
This builds preemptive analytical skills.
And Then?:
Get your child to imagine a situation and follow up with the question:
And then?
After every answer, re-ask that question.
If they derail it, dive into why and try to get them back on track.
They will begin to build the skill to imagine further into the future.
Get your child to imagine a situation and follow up with the question:
And then?
After every answer, re-ask that question.
If they derail it, dive into why and try to get them back on track.
They will begin to build the skill to imagine further into the future.
Problem Anticipation:
Get your child to list out step by step the consequences of an action they'll take.
Get them to reach a conclusion on their own, or offer a rebuttal if you see it going differently.
Thinking out multiple steps shows them their choices have results.
Get your child to list out step by step the consequences of an action they'll take.
Get them to reach a conclusion on their own, or offer a rebuttal if you see it going differently.
Thinking out multiple steps shows them their choices have results.
Tell Them Stories With Consequences:
Choose stories where characters must make decisions.
And consequences unfold in the tale that follows.
This shows, through demonstration, that actions taken by somebody impact the world they inhabit.
Choose stories where characters must make decisions.
And consequences unfold in the tale that follows.
This shows, through demonstration, that actions taken by somebody impact the world they inhabit.
Summary:
Let them take charge
Start Small
Opportunities For Failure
Improvement Game
Help Them Analyze Situations
And Then?
Problem Anticipation
Tell Them Stories With Consequences
Let them take charge
Start Small
Opportunities For Failure
Improvement Game
Help Them Analyze Situations
And Then?
Problem Anticipation
Tell Them Stories With Consequences
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From my family to yours,
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If you enjoyed this thread be sure to:
1/ Follow me @Dynastus to forge your family
2/ RT the first tweet to help other families
Thanks again.
From my family to yours,
BB
PS. Speaking of stories with consequences...
A Tale Of Two Towns is a side-by-side comparative narrative about two nobles building towns in preparation for a dragon attack.
I made this book for my kids so they can develop important skills in patience and decision-making.
A Tale Of Two Towns is a side-by-side comparative narrative about two nobles building towns in preparation for a dragon attack.
I made this book for my kids so they can develop important skills in patience and decision-making.
I don't know about you..
But I want my kids to grow up understanding how to plan for the long term..
..and live in a world with other people who can do the same.
Order a copy of the book for your kids with the link in my bio. π€
But I want my kids to grow up understanding how to plan for the long term..
..and live in a world with other people who can do the same.
Order a copy of the book for your kids with the link in my bio. π€
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