Developing Decision-Making Skills (Decision Making Skills No. 5)

Making decisions based on thoughts and not our emotions is really tough, even for adults.

We see people having really reactive choices being made and flying off the cuff and when kids don’t learn this at a young age, we see them having a really hard time learning them as adults.

I’m sure you have a friend in mind that’s similar to what I’m talking about.

But the reason we want to teach children to make decisions based on their thoughts is that it forces them to slow down.

What we know is the way we think about situations impacts the way we feel, which impacts the way we behave.

If we can get children to start thinking about the way they’re thinking, what that’s going to do is give them 3 to 5 more seconds to really slow down and make a better choice, because their choice they’re making is not a reactive in the moment decision. It’s based off of a more accurate thought that they’ve had about the perception of the situation that they’re in.