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Mindy HoskovecFamily Support Specialist

♥ Overview♥ View Video♥ Seven Life Skills♥ Conclusion ♥ Questions & Answer Session

♥ Focus♥ Cognitive Flexibility♥ Working Memory♥ Inhibitory Control

♥ Young Children-Alert & Orienting♥ Older Children & Adults- Alert & Orienting,

Being able to focus on a project and stay on task by not being interrupted by internal and external distractions

♥ Young Children-skill of shifting attention

♥ Older Children-pretending to be a character and being flexible to change to be someone else.

♥ Adult-At work dealing with different points of view

♥ Relating one idea to another♥ Relating what you are reading now to what you just read.♥ Relating what you are learning now to what you learned earlier.♥ Prioritizing

♥ Being able to pay attention with distractions♥ Sticking with something that failed and wanting to give up♥ Being able to stop and think before you act without hurting others♥ Acting appropriately when tempted to do otherwise

♥ Promote focus-play games that require attention♥ Promote focus-read stories to help encourage them to listen.♥ Promote focus-select computer games that help with attention. http://www.teach-the-brain.org.learn/attention/index.htm♥ Promote working memory-encourage children to pretend.

♥ Learning what others think & feel♥ Inhibitory Control♥ Problem solving skills

The saying goes: “If children are sad or mad, they can’t add…”

♥ Practice what we preach♥ Teach our children to be with others and to be independent.♥ Understanding that a warm & trusting relationship is the strongest foundation for

learning perspective taking.♥ Help children feel known and understood

♥ Parent-Speak ♥ Parent Look♥ Parent Gestures♥ Language & Literacy

♥ Narrate your children’s experiences with parent talk,look, and gesture.♥ Use extra talk and talk that goes beyond the here & now.♥ Tie your talk in to what is interesting to children♥ Tell stories about your life and ask your children to do the same.♥ Read, read, and read some more with your child.

♥ Figuring out what’s the same or similar♥ Figuring out what’s different♥ Figuring out how things relate♥ Finding unusual connections

♥ Give children many opportunities to see connections in fun & playful ways.

♥ Acknowledge that making mistakes is not only okay, it is part of learning.

♥ Promote an object sense. Provide many experiences with how objects function.♥ Use words to describe space.♥ Play games that involve children finding their way in spaces.

♥ Critical thinking is the ongoing search for valid & reliable knowledge to

guide our beliefs & actions. ♥ Critical thinking draws on all the skills

that we have talked about.♥ Critical thinking involves “Thinking about our thinking”

♥ Watch your child forming theories about how things work♥ Promote your child’s curiosity ♥ When dealing with parenting dilemmas, use a problem-solving process that draws on critical thinking skills.

♥ Stress♥ Temperament♥ Parenting styles♥ Parents dealing with their own stress

♥ Manage your own stress♥ Take time for yourself♥ Don’t shield your child from everyday stresses♥ Know that a warm, caring, and trusting relationship with your child makes you a stress-buster.♥ Understand your child’s temperament and help to build

his or her strengths.♥ Give your child appropriate levels of control in managing stress.

♥ Establish a trustworthy relationship with your child.

♥ Help children set and work toward their own goals

♥ Help them learn to plan

♥ Elaborate & extend children’s learning

♥ Help children become increasingly accountable♥ Create a community of learners

Mind in the Making, The seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs by Ellen Galinsky

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