This document discusses critical thinking skills for children. It defines critical thinking as the ability to evaluate information to determine if it is accurate or not. Critical thinking leads to open-mindedness and considering different perspectives. The document notes that critical thinking begins in childhood and encourages nurturing children to see thinking as fun in order to become good thinkers. It identifies three types of thinkers - naive, selfish, and fair-minded - and advises parents to help children evaluate their own thinking styles.

2. CRITICAL THINKING
FOR KIDS
What is critical
thinking?

3. It is the ability to evaluate
information to determine
whether it is right or wrong.

4. It leads to open-mindedness and
consideration of alternative ways
of looking at issues through
questioning our own thinking.

5. Is critical thinking for kids?

6. The art of critical thinking
begins at childhood.
Absolutely!

7. Does he/she believe
everything on TV/
social media?

8. Does he/she
always figure out
how to get what
he/she wants?

9. Does he/she ask
questions for
seek clarity on
issues?

10. Does he/she
usually go along
with what
you/friends
suggest without
questioning?

11. To be good at thinking,
children must be
nurtured to believe that
thinking is fun and want
to be good at it.

12. Good thinkers practice
thinking just like they
practice swimming,
dancing, drawing, singing,
soccer e.tc.

13. What kind of
thinker is your
child?

14. Types

15. 1. Naive
Doesn’t ask questions.
Goes along with what
others decide.
They mature to become
‘blind’ followers of others.

16. 2. Selfish
Figures out how to get
others to do what they
wants .
They mature to
become manipulative
adults.

17. 3. Fair-minded
Question what they see
and hears on TV, social
media or from other
people.
Thinks about others as well
as themselves.
Are motivated to
understand other people’s
situations.

18. As a parent, help your children to
evaluate their own way of thinking.

19. “Children must be taught how
to think,
not what to think.”
Margaret Mead

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