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Big Questions About Our Environment

These questions are big and complex, but as is the case with most philosophical quandaries, kids tend to see them as a challenge, and an opportunity to be included in something important. At some point, every child will realize that they and their peers will be responsible as stewards of our planet. Why not empower, inform, and involve them at a young age, so they can grow into this vitally important role?

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Well, What Does She Think?

The more we look, the more we find, and the bigger the thinking community (past and present) becomes.

Women’s History Month is a fantastic time to start exploring these historical thinkers with your child, but it’s really meant to be a year-round pursuit.

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How To Help A Little Thinker Fall In Love With Big Questions

Ask pretty much any parent, particularly those with small children, and they’ll tell you as much. What parent hasn’t been ambushed by a million bouts of “why”? Who hasn’t been minding their own business, going about their daily tasks, only to have the little in their house hit them with a truly difficult question for which there is no easy answer (if there’s any answer at all)?

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Grown Up Thinkers Deserve A Little Philosophy Too

We’d like to remind parents, caregivers and teachers: you deserve this feeling too, this comfort, this connection. You deserve to be able to admit you don’t know. You deserve to have time and space to ask big questions, and to bond with others through dialogue. You deserve to the security of knowing that, like the many, many humans before you who have lived through trying circumstances, that there are ways to think your way through things, to come out on the other side with even bigger and better ideas.

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Kids, Philosophy, And Patience

Philosophy encourages the development of many 21st century skills and promotes social-emotional learning. The development of patience is a benefit that shouldn’t be overlooked. Whose kid couldn’t use a few moments to sit and reflect now and then? Whose kid wouldn’t benefit from a break from the frantic speed of their current lifestyle? What adult, for that matter, wouldn’t like to take a breath and slow down every so often?

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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.

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World Philosophy Day Challenge

Yes, even philosophers have a special day, and this is it!

Today, we celebrate the asking of big questions, the curiosity behind them, and the patient and creative stream of thought with which we work through them. Around these parts, we also celebrate the little thinkers who seem to effortlessly embrace philosophy, and the big thinkers who encourage them.

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