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Mindy Hoskovec Family 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. brain.org.learn/attention/index.htmhttp:// 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 If you would like a certificate for participating in this webinar, please me at Thank You for taking the time to listen.

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