Pre-Philosophy for Families: A Parent's Guide to Big Questions and Simple Debates (Ages 9-11)

Your child is already a philosopher. You just need to know what to do when the big questions come. Is it fair? Is it ever okay to lie? How do you know what's true? What makes a real friend? Children of nine, ten, and eleven ask the deepest questions there are, usually at the dinner table, and most of us freeze. We're afraid of saying the wrong thing, so we shut the question down or change the subject, and the thinking stops. This is a practical guide for parents, not a textbook for kids, and it rests on one freeing idea: there is no answer to get wrong. The goal of these questions was never the answer. It's the reasoning and the listening. The book hands you a simple, repeatable method, the trio Ask, Reason, Listen, and shows you how to turn any big question into a real conversation that builds your child's thinking and their empathy at once. Inside this book: - The three-move method (Ask, Reason, Listen) you can use on any question, forever- How to ask a question and resist answering it, and how to run a friendly debate nobody has to win- Twenty-three of the questions children really raise: fairness, lying, rules, friendship, truth, fairness, revenge, and more- How to grow reasoning and empathy together, on the same questions- A simple "Tonight at the table" prompt to try at the end of every chapter > By the end, you'll be the parent who can think out loud with your child, one big question at a time.

Pagina's: 176, Paperback, Independently published