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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi Teacher here--the kids that always knocked my socks off were the ones who were really sweet kids who could look for different solutions. As PP indicated--r[b]aising great kids who can function is todays' world counts so much more than test scores.[/b]

1. Teach please, thank you, can I help you?, offer to hold doors, and the reasons behind. 
2. When kids don't get something, encourage them to try a different way
3. Encourage problem solving--what can you do? Can you try it a different way? 
4. Let them explore--if you have a back yard use it as much as possible
5. Encourage projects--building things, making things--these are ongoing and develop above listed skills
6. Expose to arts and various cultures through cooking/eating at various ethnic restaurants
7. Do things together--ice skating, walking in park, cleaning, cooking, etc. 
8. Let them fail and talk about why that happened
9. Making reading enjoyable--give them their own library card, let them pick books, have them read to you--talk about subjects (Most schools now force test prep down kids throats so reading has become very laborious. Kids want to see you reading too! )

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This will be the down fall of many Asian parents raising their kids in the U.S. who are enrolling their kids in academic activities as they are keeping them out of situations where they develop real world skills.
So many of my Asian neighbors - Indian mostly - do not give their children opportunities to do 1-9 as PP listed.  Cram school and stampeding over others to be "the best", may have worked in Indian... China.... Korea... but you need creativity and people skills to achieve in this economy.

Sad....[/quote]

Well you can keep hoping so anyways.[/quote]

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