Growing Curious Children #071

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Being curious is an important life skill. It can help our kids achieve more. It can make them happier. It is can be a gift they offer the people they care about in their lives.
A few practical ideas to help our kids be curious.

• Be humble.
• Model curiosity in life.
• Mode curiosity by asking our children lots of open-ended questions. For more on this listen to our episode #48: The Power of Curiosity.
• Follow their interests.
• Have your kids practice forming opinions and points of view.
• Ask them to teach us something because teaching helps them gain mastery.

The Stat of the Week is about the NASA Mars rover, Curiosity.

A few resources mentioned in the episode:

• Greater Good Magazine (UC Berkeley): Six Surprising Benefits of Curiosity
• How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims
• Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life by Diane Tavenner
  • "A good teacher inspires, captivates, and gets kids to think by sharing profound knowledge and perfectly crafted questions..."
• Harvard Business Review: The Business Case for Curiosity
  • “Tenelle Porter, a postdoctoral scholar in psychology at the University of California, Davis, describes intellectual humility as the ability to acknowledge that what we know is sharply limited. As her research demonstrates, higher levels of intellectual humility are associated with a greater willingness to consider views other than our own. People with more intellectual humility also do better in school and at work. Why? When we accept that our own knowledge is finite, we are more apt to see that the world is always changing and that the future will diverge from the present. By embracing this insight, leaders and employees can begin to recognize the power of exploration.”
• Turnaround for Kids: Building Blocks for Learning: Curiosity, Self-direction & Purpose