Parents: Boost the Thinking Potential in Your Kids with This Activity!

 
  Thinking Activity Boosts Potential in KIds

If you'd like an activity for building thinking potential in your kids, keep reading. Our parenting expert, Kendra Delano, is an international educator. She knows a lot about getting kids to think. Let's read about one of her special activities.

Flexible Thinking Activity that Boosts Potential in Kids

"The world is getting smaller, paradigms are changing. The ability to shift thoughts (think flexibly) will be monumentally important in years to come.

Here's a flexible thinking activity for children of any age. I have used it in classrooms (I gave the children manila envelopes filled with the items), with my own child and with a group of intercultural relations students (adults):

-Gather fifteen small objects together such as a button, dog bone, spool of thread, penny, dime, toothpick, playing card, bead, die, popsicle stick, etc.

-Group a few objects according to an attribute (the popsicle stick, toothpick and playing card for example).

-Ask what the items have in common (all made from trees).

-Now ask your child to create a group and you guess the commonality.

The lesson in this is that many objects fit in several groups. So do people, ideas, raw materials. There isn't much in the world that's black and white."

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Let's give Kendra Delano a BIG HAND for sharing this activity. Helping kids think flexibly and see the bigger picture is an awesome goal. We can use her activity as opportunity to discuss the commonality in people. We can appreciate their differences too.

Please connect with Kendra Delano at:

http://www.samedaydifferentchoices.com/index.html

www.facebook.com/SDDCLLC

Parents, it's your turn to take the stage:

What are your opinions about this blog post or your suggestions for helping your kids? Please answer in the comment link below.

With warm wishes,

Jean Tracy, MSS

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Comments

[Jean Tracy, MSS]

Our super mom, and guest parenting expert, Kendra, loves to figure out how kids think and train them to think even better.

Having been both a school teacher and family counselor, I know helping kids starts with finding out how kids think and then building on that knowledge.

Thanks, for your excellent work, Kendra.

Jean Tracy, MSS
http://www.KidsDiscuss.com