Ways to Teach Your Child Problem-Solving Skills

6 TIPS TO TEACH CHILDREN PROBLEM-SOLVING SKILLS

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Problem-solving skills are one of the most essential skill sets to have to lead a successful life.

However, kids feel overwhelmed when faced with real-life problems.

By breaking down the problem constructively and providing a way to solve it, children can feel more confident and try to fix the situation.

Here are six tips to teach children problem-solving skills: 1. Identifying the Problem •

A problem well defined is half solved. Just understandably stating the problem can be helpful.

Come up with multiple solutions without being judgemental.

2. Pros and Cons

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Once you have multiple solutions to a single problem, it’s good to streamline them in terms of the pros and cons of each solution. By marking down the benefits and disadvantages of each solution, kids can outweigh the unnecessary ones and come up with the final solution to the problem.

3. Pick Your Solution •

Once the child is done weighing the advantages and disadvantages of their potential solutions, you can guide your little one to choose one solution which he/she thinks is the best. Test the solution out, and see if it works. If it doesn't, try another one, this will help the kid to apply various logic to the problem.

4. Practice Problem Solving Games

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Games are interactive, challenging yet educative. Games provide a broad scope of various arrays of problems in a fun and engaging manner. It makes problem-solving as fun as possible and can be an excellent exercise for the brains of little ones.

5. Go Visual

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A generation obsessed with screens understands things through visuals and videos. Making them understand the problems through pictures, interactive storyboards, or illustrations. It can spark up their imagination to help come up with a creative solution.

6. Follow Up

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Once kids are done with the above steps, provide them with multiple opportunities to apply these principles. By following up, you will help them reinforce the learning and provide opportunities to practice more.

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