Building Decision-Making Skills

By Dr. Jane BluesteinNovember 25, 2012June 9, 2022 Avoiding power struggles, Avoiding power struggles with your kids, Classroom management, Creativity and independence, Differentiating Instruction, Motivating your kids, Parents, Problem solving, Teaching benefits of offering choices to kids, building independence, choices you can offer, decision making, guiding children in decision making, making choices, offering options at home, offering options in school, problem solving skills Leave a comment

Helping kids make constructive choices Responsible behavior includes the ability to connect “what I’ve done” to “what happens (or happened) as a result of what I’ve done.” Likewise, self-concept is influenced by an individual’s belief that “I have the power and ability to impact my environment and change what isn’t working in my life.” Offering…

Questions, Not Answers

By Dr. Jane BluesteinAugust 5, 2012June 1, 2022 Classroom management, Parenting, Parenting, Problem solving, Social and Emotional Growth, Teaching benefits of using questions to help solve problems, guiding children in decision making, helping kids solve problems, problem solving, using questions instead of giving answers Leave a comment

Benefits of asking questions instead of giving answers These points are offered as an alternative to advice giving. While written especially with children in mind, I have found using questions (along with a bit of genuine empathy) as effective tools to support adults as well. • Questions help children explore dimensions of a problem. •…