The Roles of Parents in Acquiring Thinking Skills
The most important factor in children's acquisition of thinking skills is the quality of daily dialogues within the family. The biggest duty of parents is to be non-judgmental, supportive and attentive to their children's thoughts. Contrary to our prejudices, children's thought systems are quite clear and deep. So, let's look at what mothers and fathers should not do to develop and support their children's thinking skills:
Encourage Him to Ask Questions
With developing technology and fast passing time, capsule information and news habits inhibit people's sense of curiosity. is hitting. As of modern life, as we grow older, we, as adults, ask "Why?" and how?" We stop using questions. Our duty now is to ensure that our children do not lose these abilities and to support them in approaching everything with curiosity.
Do not just answer every question your children ask you verbally. This causes them to forget more easily and lose interest in the subject, thus reducing your children's thinking potential and enthusiasm. Support them in visual, auditory and kinesthetic ways so that your answers become tangible facts for them. For example; Your son/daughter's question "Why does it rain?" You should support your question not only with a cause and effect relationship but also with a rain video, rain sounds and a walk under the rain that you will take together.
Do not stop their questions
If Newton, Galileo, Einstein or Edison had never wondered and questioned life Could the world reach its current normal scientific data, technologies, and progress?
Imagine going to a brand new planet and encountering hundreds of new objects or events. What do we all do in such a situation? We ask questions to the people who live there. What we commonly overlook is that children are unfamiliar with the information we are familiar with; Therefore, the new planet is our world, those who come there are our children, and the people who will be asked questions are us. So there is a huge world for children to discover. An insect, a flower, a car can all be a new world to be discovered for them.
The biggest duty of parents in answering questions is not to undermine children's curiosity. For example, the answer to the question "Why are clouds white?" should not be "Because their colors are like that"; if necessary, parents should research and shed light on the subject scientifically at a level that the child can understand. This nourishes the child's curiosity even more and encourages him to ask new questions.
Encourage multiple thinking
Children are transparent and do not hide their thoughts, curiosity, and judgments from other people. However, some children's worlds are unique to them and they do not want to open them up. This does not mean that they do not think, wonder, or question. This just shows that they do not want to open their world to others. Maybe they are afraid of criticism, slighting, or finding a mistake from you. Don't let these things happen.
For example, if a child draws a red tree, you might ask, "Can it be a red tree?!" Saying this may prevent him from seeing things from a different perspective. The judgment “There is no red tree” is actually the restriction we put on our imagination in the name of realism and stems from our insistence on looking at events from a single perspective. Don't do this to your children. Instead of teaching them that events occur for a single cause or a single result, teach them that there are a thousand and one ways to get somewhere or that a cause can have thousands of consequences. Your children, whom you have given the ability to think multiple times, will open their world to you more easily.
Be patient
If you want to develop your child's thinking ability and support him, you should not act in a hurry and stay away from extrajudicial executions. While the endless sea of questions comes to you, you must answer them one by one and carefully, without getting tired. Of course, you can't know everything - and you don't have to. However, researching that topic together will be both a contribution to you and an excuse to spend a good time with your child. Take advantage of these times; Do not avoid questions both for the sake of being together and for being a knowledgeable parent in his/her eyes.
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