Responding to Children's Thoughts and Ideas

Don't destroy your time with your children by seeking to use every good experience you have together as a "teachable moment." Take the time to savor and enjoy your children's crazy ideas, wild stories, funny theories, and observations about people and soon you will learn how you can best help them learn because they are telling you all the time—don't diminish communication with your child as happens in school, nurture it instead.

An interview with philosopher Gareth Matthews about responding to children's thoughts is in GWS 75.