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1. PROBLEM SOLVING FOR PRESCHOOLERS: WAYS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR SKILLS 7

2. PROBLEM SOLVING FOR PRESCHOOLERS: 7 WAYS TO STRENGTHEN THEIR SKILL • Children are proactively involved in so many things that require problem-solving skills. However, parents get consumed in their daily activities so much that they tend to ignore to refine these skills. Nevertheless, parents, educators, guardians have to make a conscious effort to help children enhance their problem-solving skills. • These steps are easier to follow, and you can incorporate them into your children's life before and after school care. Walk through the below ways and use them as per your choice. • LET'S DIVE IN! • Pay attention to everyday moments: Some moments allow you to teach your kids about problem-solving skills. For example, get your children involved in household chores, such as grocery shopping, doing dishes, or re-doing the walls. You can ask them questions about things you do to encourage them to think and answer. Kids learn that problems are part of their lives, and they need to find solutions to solve them.

3. Pay attention to everyday moments: Some moments allow you to teach your kids about problem-solving skills. For example, get your children involved in household chores, such as grocery shopping, doing dishes, or re-doing the walls. You can ask them questions about things you do to encourage them to think and answer. Kids learn that problems are part of their lives, and they need to find solutions to solve them. Ask questions: You can ask them questions that make them think. It can be simple. You do not require to ask them deep and dense questions. Suppose they are not able to tie their shoe-lace. Ask questions: You can ask them questions that make them think. It can be simple. You do not require to ask them deep and dense questions. Suppose they are not able to tie their shoe-lace. Focus on emotions: Your child may face a situation where he might feel angry or frustrated. Let your children learn to handle their feelings. Focusing on the feelings often leads to finding the solutions. Tell stories: Incorporate social accounts in your routine and read them to your kids for preschool problem-solving. Social stories often introduce a problem and then showcase methods to solve the problem.

4. Support children's natural interests: • Help young children practice problem-solving skills by using something they are genuinely interested in. • Get to know their interests and ask them questions about them. • Foster problem-solving skills in a more meaningful and compelling manner. • Use topics that capture child's interest and work alongside them to encourage their creativity and intrinsic desire to learn more. • Model problem-solving: Children look up to their parents and teachers for everything. Thus, take this as an opportunity and showcase strategies and methods that help children learn to handle life when things go wrong. become great problem solvers. • Take help from your children: Now, this may seem a tad bit impossible. However, this boosts children's confidence. Therefore, at times, try to remove yourself from the picture and give your children a steering wheel for guidance. Incorporating problem-solving skills at an early age may seem an intimidating process. However, you can allow your children to have these skills with the proper techniques and methods. Moreover, preschool programs teach children to think beyond and push them to come up with unimaginable solutions.

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