Encourage Your Teen
This week, present your teen with this quote: “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” -George S. Patton
Discuss whether you agree or disagree…or restate the quote in your own words.
How is this encouraging?
It’s not the “feel-good,” often short-sighted type of encouragement.
This type of conversation strengthens your relationship when you’re both listening and valuing each other’s viewpoint.
It encourages your teen because it helps them develop their self-awareness and recognize that they are capable of analyzing someone else’s beliefs and deciding whether those are the same, similar, or different from their own.
It’s encouraging–even empowering–to recognize that in oneself.
The Answer Is…
Challenge yourselves.
How many questions can you come up with in 1 minute?
If it seems too easy, try to come up with questions that only have fractions in them.
Think outside the box…what non-math-y questions can you come up with? (such as…How many blind mice were there in the nursery rhyme?)
Maybe you could come up with 10 tv or movie trivia questions where all the answers are 3.
Have fun with this one! And don’t rush the process…critical thinking is NOT about being fast!
You’ve got this!
