How to Help Your Child Become a Great Problem Solver
Learning how to solve problems is a key part of a child’s way to develop and grow as a person. There are many problems we have to face across our lives and learning how to navigate them will give your child practice for when they may face more difficult decisions in the future.
From the smallest steps, allowing your child to hold things, grabbing items they drop, to telling your child when they’re of age to pick between two universities, they’re all issues that your child will learn how to navigate with the right support from home.
Read these top tips from this private school in Hammersmith to get you started on using problem solving methods at home.
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Allow them to take part in creative play
Creative play or free play are ways where children are interacting with toys and other objects for the first time, or are still learning about how to hold things. These are where their first steps are also taken. For example, let your child drop toys (and to an extent, breaking toys) can see what happens when they play with a toy in a certain way.
Add small obstacles in their day
These can be easily added during playtime easily to demonstrate how they can face different issues on a regular basis. Show them that there is a solution to the problem that they can figure out without any or little help. As they get older they’ll be able to pick up more complicated problems based on the first stages of learning.
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Read stories that talk about problem solving
A lot of your child’s favourite stories will have moments where there are problems that the main character has to fix. It’s a way of letting your child learn about how to handle different issues in their lives. Speaking through these problems and how they’re resolved will give them a chance to learn from others and use their own judgment over time.
Disclosure: This is a collaborative post.