SOMETHING TO DO THIS SUMMER Thinking skills could be a curricula. If you want that, let me know. For now, following our last episode of things to do with your children this summer, here is an example of a conversation that could be used as a thinking lesson. It just happened to me on ... well... another social media platform. Kind of annoyed me this morning, so I thought I would use it as an example. There are a lot of controversial things going on today. Use a conversation about one as an example to lead your children into better thinking. Just part of the daily conversation. Becomes a lesson - the best kind. And a bonding time, too. MAIN TAKEAWAYS ON HOW TO THINK I summarize my main points in how to think well - and how to not get snookered . Here they are: Nail down definitions and keep them nailed down Determine what the proposition is and stay on that one proposition Distinguish between facts and judgments Disallow ad hominem arguments from substituting for actual discussion Ask what the interest is of the interlocutor/ why is this being said? RESOURCES Dangerous Times audio series https://greatshalom.org/shop/ on sale now Oh! I do have something for character, audio episodes on Manner and Character : https://greatshalom.org/shop/ www.teachachildchangeanation.org  course in how to start a licensed childcare center Learn at Home for Great Shalom  https://www.lulu.com/shop/sharon-sarles/learn-at-home-for-great-shalom/paperback/product-195ym29w.html?q=learn+at+home+for+great+shalom&page=1&pageSize=4 https://www.amazon.com/Re-founding-Education-Teaching-Teachers-Administrators/dp/B0DXRTKM73/ref=sr_1_1?crid=14WSSHCPJSIHK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.M5bLOaWGiYrvOB4DOObV9OdqVUG42IKmEYKKjWXGjgTGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.7YF6e-Ey4GeDfXyoPUh5GHGyyuKlUTo_pTDiT4X0bGs&dib_tag=se&keywords=re-founding+education&qid=1749746084&sprefix=re-founding+education%2Caps%2C128&sr=8-1