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How to Raise Brilliant Children, According to Science
Parents receive a lot of mixed messages surrounding how best to bring up their children. How strict should you be? Should you be more of a friend or guardian? How much independence should they be given? And current parenting culture may not actually be setting kids up in the best way, according to two professors.
"We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that," says Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, developmental psychologist, professor at Temple University and co-author of Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children.
"But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means."
Hirsh-Pasek and her co-author Roberta Golinkoff from the University of Delaware believe children should be assessed in the six Cs: collaboration, communication, content, critical thinking, creative innovation and confidence. And they go in that order too.
Collaboration is crucial in the classroom and at home, and teaches children to get on with others.
Communication includes speaking, reading, writing and listening.
Content comes next because, as Hirsh-Pasek explained to NPR, "you can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read." Figuring out which content to select from a mass is a skill.
Critical thinking is then what you do with that content.
Creative innovation is the next step because: "You need to know something well enough to make something new," Hirsh-Pasek explains.
Confidence is crucial in teaching children to take safe risks.
And it's the roles of parents to encourage children in these six areas: "So, if you're going to have a kid who engages in critical thinking, you're not going to shut them down when they ask a question," Golinkoff says.
"You're not going to settle for 'because.' You're going to encourage them to ask more. And you want them to understand how other people think."
There are then levels to each of the six Cs, which reflect how strong you are in each skill, and Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek say parents can use the system to evaluate their own relationship with their children too.
The authors believe it's crucial that parents supplement what children learn in school and they stress that social interaction – rather than gadgets – are crucial.
"What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years," says Hirsh-Pasek. "If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see."
Source: independent.co.uk
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Opening Doors for Europe's Children
The Opening Doors for Europe's Children campaign aims to support national efforts to develop child protection systems that strengthen families and ensure high-quality family and community-based alternative care for children, by leveraging EU funding and policy and building capacity in civil society.
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The National Network for Children's annual report evaluates as in school whether the government and administration have fulfilled their commitments to the children in the last year.
Child Rights Hubs for Children in Conflict and Contact with the Law
The main objective of the project, funded by the Velux Foundation, is to establish four Centers for children's rights and piloting services aimed at children in conflict and in contact with the law.
Golden Apple Awards
The National Network for Children founded the Golden Apple Awards to distinguish the contribution of public figures, ordinary people and organization, working to improve Bulgarian children live and welfare.
The child participation guarantees children rights and suppose that children not only share their opinions freely, but also they are active participants in community and social processes, related to child-adult bonding, to acquire communication competence and to empower children.
House of Children
Help us to build the House for Children. It will be a new, modern, contemporary House for Children from across the country. A place for events and training center for development of skills that will be needed TOMORROW in order our children to be successful people and leaders.
Chapter: Children help movement against physical threatening and emotional repression
Following the best practices in Iceland, the project aims to pilot comprehensive program of care in 3 countries – Bulgaria, Portugal, Cyprus in direction of recognition and empowerment of children and their parents and authorities leaving out the position of inert following the pattern of violence and initiate a process of self-awareness of personal own value of the youngest members of our society.
Foster a child. Create future
The foster care is an opportunity for children, deprived of own parents care to grow up in a family environment, to establish an emotional bond with the foster parents, to adopt social behavior models and to develop their potential to live independently.
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