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[quote=Anonymous]Honestly, for young kids (preschoolers and early elementary), IMO what you want to encourage is a healthy curiosity about the world, building toward broad general knowledge and an enjoyment of learning. You want your kids to be interested in thinking for themselves and learning independently (and frankly, having them understand that that trumps "grades" is FINE). Ways to encourage this? Read to them, widely, across a range of topics. Go and explore things together and model curiosity. When you go to the zoo, talk about where animals live across the world, and what they eat and how ecology works and what it means to be endangered and what we can do about that. And ask them questions and see what they think. And teach them how to ask questions of THEMSELVES, which will lead them to critical thinking. But don't push "academic" stuff like reading or math facts if the kid isn't ready or doesn't want to do it. [/quote]
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