At The Chastain School, we understand what an important role we play in your child’s social, emotional, physical and cognitive development.  As we continue to help develop the foundation for your little one’s self-confident, healthy and successful future, we would like to share with you a valuable parenting book which discusses the values and core areas that we believe in and work on every day at TCS.  The book is entitled “Mind in the Making, The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs.”  Read below for more information about the research-based advice book for parents.

 

The Seven Essential Skills Every Child Needs

Ellen Galinsky has captured relevant early childhood research and spelled out for parents and teachers the practical applications for raising well-rounded children who will reach their full potential in Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs. She groups this research into seven "essential life skills":

• Focus and self control
• Perspective taking
• Communicating
• Making connections
• Critical thinking
• Taking on challenges
• Self-directed, engaged learning
  

"Education goes far beyond the subjects we typically teach in school. Life skills like focus and perspective taking are essential to building human potential. Mind in the Making will be a powerful new resource for teachers and families."  -Gaston Caperton, President of the College Board

"Ellen Galinsky has been one of our most thoughtful as well as passionate advocates for children. In this book she assembles the latest fascinating research from the very best scientists in the field and presents it clearly and accurately, in a way that parents and others will find most valuable."  -Alison Gopnik, Professor of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley and author of The Philosophical Child

"Ellen Galinsky—already the go-to person on interaction between families and the workplace—draws on fresh research to explain what we OUGHT to be teaching our children. This is must-reading for everyone who cares about America's fate in the 21st century."  -Judy Woodruff, Senior Correspondent for The PBS NewsHour

Happy Reading!

The Chastain School