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SOMETHING TO DO THIS SUMMER
Thinking skills could be a curricula. If you want that, let me know. For now, following our last episode of things to do with your children this summer, here is an example of a conversation that could be used as a thinking lesson. It just happened to me on … well… another social media platform. Kind of annoyed me this morning, so I thought I would use it as an example.
There are a lot of controversial things going on today. Use a conversation about one as an example to lead your children into better thinking. Just part of the daily conversation. Becomes a lesson – the best kind. And a bonding time, too.
MAIN TAKEAWAYS ON HOW TO THINK
I summarize my main points in how to think well – and how to not get snookered . Here they are:
- Nail down definitions and keep them nailed down
- Determine what the proposition is and stay on that one proposition
- Distinguish between facts and judgments
- Disallow ad hominem arguments from substituting for actual discussion
- Ask what the interest is of the interlocutor/ why is this being said?
RESOURCES
Dangerous Times audio series https://greatshalom.org/shop/ on sale now
Oh! I do have something for character, audio episodes on Manner and Character : https://greatshalom.org/shop/
www.teachachildchangeanation.org course in how to start a licensed childcare center
Later addition: Interesting person (Michael Yon, War correspondent/traveling journalist) offers his thinking exercises that made him a good predictor of world events. Minute 25