Bright Stuff, The
Pearson Life (Verlag)
978-0-273-72817-7 (ISBN)
There is so much your child will learn at school. But there are other, vital things that are all too frequently absent from a busy school’s syllabus, yet which are increasingly recognised as just asessential to your child’s future. These secrets of success include qualities such as curiosity, independent thinking, perseverance, determination, individuality and a willingness to weigh up risks and solve problems.
In The Bright Stuff, leading child education expert C J Simister takes one secret of success at a time and offers a treasure trove of imaginative, playful and above all fun activities, games and exercises that you can use to preserve, nurture and enhance your child’s extraordinary potential, making sure it does not remain untapped.
All are designed to fit in with everyday family life, involving little or no preparation. Appealing to a wide range of ages, they are ideal for keeping children amused in spare moments — over a meal, in the car, even when stuck in the queue at the supermarket. And while they are enjoying themselves, your children will be developing crucial qualities such as initiative, alertness and an investigative spirit. They will also be learning to form innovative ideas, to discern sense from nonsense and to use failure as a useful springboard for progress.
With this ground-breaking book, you can make sure your children have the skills they need to thrive in the real world, while helping them to become happy, successful and well-rounded individuals.
As the director of an innovative school programme designed to help children of all ages become more independent, more critical and more creative in their thinking, C. J. Simister is in demand throughout the UK and internationally as an expert on this subject. She is a Cambridge graduate whose regular and hugely popular workshops for parents are frequently described as ‘excellent’, ‘thought provoking’, ‘mind blowing’.
Introduction
How to stimulate independent thinking
How to grow a vivid imagination
How to be alert and observant
How to kindle a burning curiosity
How to develop a ‘let’s find out’ approach
How to encourage originality and creativity
How to become innovative and inventive
How to discover the magic of persistence
How to take the right sort of risk
How to learn from failure as well as success
How to sort sense from nonsense
How to think flexibly
How to make wise decisions
How to enjoy solving problems
How to have ‘social savvy’
How to develop initiative and forward thinking
Background reading
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.10.2009 |
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Verlagsort | Harlow |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 141 x 218 mm |
Gewicht | 530 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt |
ISBN-10 | 0-273-72817-2 / 0273728172 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-273-72817-7 / 9780273728177 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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