Critical Thinking and Life Skills

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Critical Thinking and Life Skills

Postby CurtS » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:33 am

We are preparing to begin our adventures in homeschooling this fall for our six children. Five of them we've adopted through the foster care system and decided that they had too many issues that public schools just were not addressing (our own son wanted to be homeschooled because he didn't want to be left out). Two of the children are particularly problematic and their psychologist suggested that, at best, we need to teach life skills and critical thinking. Conventional homeschooling courses do not seem to really address those two items and we want to build that foundation at the very beginning of their coursework this fall. Any suggestions?

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Postby Tabz » Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:28 pm

Larry Burkett's series was extremly helpful for me in money managment, balancing a checkbook, etc. So were simple home ec. classes.

There's things like "the learning bank"...

Teen books...

Also basics on how a car works.

Critical thinking "class" was every day in my family. When we watched TV, movies, or the news my dad would always ask, "what are they trying to tell us, what do you think about that, what does God think about that?"

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Games and online activities

Postby mom1967 » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:18 am

Here are couple things to improve thinking skills:

"Rush hour" series from thinkfun
"Brick by brick"

Also the website Beestar offers GT Math besides Math and ELA weekly exercises. Every week, kids are challenged with critical thinking and spatial analysis problems in the worksheets they registered for. beestar.org also times the exercise and logs the results for parents to review the answers and monitor their progress at any time. Sign up and math programs are free. Definitely worth a try.

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Postby rafismom » Mon Feb 26, 2007 11:12 pm

Critical Thinking Co. has Building Thinking Skills which I used previously. It does a good job of helping kids learn to solve problems.

Jane in MN

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Postby mom1967 » Thu Oct 04, 2007 10:17 am

Do they send coupon if you register?

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Postby kerry1968 » Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:46 pm

I have a book called Math for The Real World. It focuses on real life skills such as check book, tax forms, budgets, gas mileage and such. this is the stuff that no one taught me. I just learned as i went.

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Re: Games and online activities

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