I'm a Mom - What's Your SuperPower?

Critical thinking skills, or for that matter much of early-childhood education takes place right at home, months or years before children begin preschool. Kids learn to talk and to walk, to color and to cut with scissors as well as developing their critical thinking from the people around them. Children develop these important thinking skills as they learn to cooperate with their peers and when they learn to read short picture books by themselves. Though critical thinking is emphasized from pre-kindergarten to college or graduate school, it is a skill that parents can begin to introduce to their children from a young age. It is less complicated than the term implies. Here are three ways you can foster critical thinking skills in your little scholar: 1. Encourage Your Preschoolers Natural Curiosity Young children are naturally inquisitive. This starts very early in their lives, even before they can verbalize their curiosity, as they make discoveries about their environment us...

I'll be honest here - At first, I didn't want to send my daughter to preschool. In my mind, I was already teaching her what she needed for kindergarten. We practiced writing . We played. We colored and painted. I had other parents as friends who came over with their children. We read together. She was potty trained and just about the friendliest, most outgoing toddler I had ever met. What more could she learn in a preschool setting that she couldn't learn from me? In my mind, sending her to preschool was like I was giving away my responsibilities as a parent. It didn't matter that I was now a single parent and needed to work to provide for my child. It also wouldn't have mattered if I wasn't a single parent - I worked, therefore it was a necessity that she goes to preschool. I was very nervous about it. I spent days researching schools and why preschool was needed anyway. I interviewed the teachers. I spent time in the preschool to see how they did things...