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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Raising Truly Street-Smart Kids: Sound Strategies to Sharpen Situational Awareness, Build Good Judgment, Practice Wise Choices, and Develop Confident

Raising Truly Street-Smart Kids: Sound Strategies to Sharpen Situational Awareness, Build Good Judgment, Practice Wise Choices, and Develop Confident

Monteverde, Aurora

Paperback

General Parenting

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ISBN13: 9798994491720
Publisher: Aurora Academy
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
You can't hold onto your child forever, but every new freedom for them can bring a new worry for you. The walk to school. A crowded store. A friend's risky idea. A situation they've never faced before. How can you prepare them for when you're not there?

More rules aren't necessarily the answer. Neither is making children fearful of the world around them. What kids need is a set of skills to help them handle everyday life with growing confidence.

That's where Raising Truly Street-Smart Kids can help. It's built around a four-part framework: Notice → Think → Decide → Act. The idea is simple: kids learn to take in details they might otherwise miss, think things through, make informed choices, and act on them.

In this book, we'll explore how to help kids:

  • Pay attention to what's happening around them
  • Read people and situations more thoughtfully
  • Think for themselves when others are influencing them
  • Weigh risks and consequences before making a choice
  • Solve problems and adapt when things don't go as planned
...and much more.

You don't need special lessons or elaborate setups to teach these skills. Ordinary moments can become opportunities to practice them together. That's why each chapter includes two practical sections:

  • Try This Together gives you games and challenges to put the ideas to work.
  • Let's Talk About It provides questions to get conversations started.
Both sections are divided into age groups: 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, and 14+. You can choose what fits your child now and return to the book as they grow and face new situations.

Parents, this is how you prepare capable kids for an unpredictable world without overprotecting them or overwhelming them. Grandparents, teachers, aunts, uncles, mentors, coaches, and other nurturing adults-this book is for you, too. You can use these same tools to help the kids you care for become more confident and independent.

We can't prepare kids for every situation they'll encounter. But we can help them develop the skills to notice, think, decide, and act for themselves, so they're better prepared when we're not there to tell them what to do.

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