I Love Logic!

I've become a firm believer in teaching children logic. Haven't we all met someone who sounds like a complete moron by saying things that are so far from making sense you wonder what drug they're on? Seriously though, some kids won't outgrow that stage of making stupid comments without being actively taught how to think things through.

I want my kids to be able to see a problem and devise a logical solution. Or to have a thought they want to verbalize and be able to articulate it so that others can follow. Sounds simple but it doesn't come naturally for all kids and I won't accept that any of my kids will grow up to be one of those moronic adults!

My 7yo son started the Building Thinking Skills book 1 in September and there is already a noticeable difference in his thinking abilities. He's learned how to manipulate objects in his mind and 'see' the reversed, rotated, or mirrored version. It's also helped him in being able to describe things by their properties and we're using that new skill to help with creative writing. He's describing nouns to make more interesting sentences. For example, yesterday he worked on making two simple sentences with word blocks and wrote them down. One was: An elephant was at the zoo. Today he listed attributes of his nouns and made that sentence into: A big gray adult elephant was sleeping in a cage at the zoo. Hey, I just realized his lesson from last week on a/an usage stuck...he knew it was AN elephant! Considering last year he was still saying 'him's car'...I feel really proud.