Don’t Be Afraid Of The Critical Part of Critical Thinking

Perhaps when we shy away from teaching critical thinking to our kids, it’s because we’re seeing it through the smoggy lenses of our grown-up definition. We’re so afraid of our kids not trusting us, talking back to us, and being unhappily skeptical about everything that we forget what it feels like for a little thinker to be critical. For a child, critical thinking is an exploration, a collaboration, and even an adventure.