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6 ?Involve the whole family. Good thinking habits can be learned best in a small group with plenty of give and take. Even the youngest child has ideas that should be brought out and listened to. A formal curriculum isn’t necessary. Dinner talk about the events of the day can provide excellent opportunities for instruction. “Can you think of a different way you might have answered the teacher, Mike?” Text B 7 Tell jokes. Humor can help teach kids that there’s more than one way of looking at things. A pun, for instance, gets a laugh because it looks at words from a different perspective. “Bob Hope had a disappointing Christmas,” goes one old joke, “He only got one golf club — and it didnt even have a swimming pool.” 8 Once youve established a thinking atmosphere, its time for step two — training your kids to use the following method of critical thinking: Text B 9 Look at all sides. One technique taught by Edward de Bono, founder of the Cognitive Research Trust program (a widely used method of teaching thinking), is the “PMI”. This involves looking for the Pluses, Minuses and Interesting points about any given question. Text B 10 ??Edward de Bono once asked a group of 30 ten-year-olds. “How would you like to receive $5 a week for attending school?” All 30 enthusiastically voted for the idea. Then he asked them to “do a PMI.” After three minutes of listing pluses, minuses and interesting points about the proposal, 29 out of 30 had changed their minds. Among the minuses: “Our parents wouldn’t give us allowances” and “The school would raise prices for meals.” Further and deeper thought had convinced the group that the obvious answer wasnt necessarily the best. Text B 11 ??The PMI method is easy enough to recreate at home. It’s fun to let all family members take turns proposing questions, then start brainstorming the pluses, minuses and interesting points as you can while a group secretary notes them all down in appropriate columns on a piece of paper. One crucial rule of