The Sense of Self
When working with a family, its not uncommon that parents will ask me, "how do I "get" my child to do this, or that. The entire relationship between the parents and child becomes focused on skill acquision. While this may help check the boxes off in skills, what it neglects is helping a child to see the world through relationships...through first their parents eyes. This sense of self is the foundation for those thinking skills that are intuitive. When a child can reflect on past experiences in their own mind rather than an adult prompt, this memory encodes for future decisions and experiences. Its the collaborative moments that give our kids competence, which is WHY RDI focuses on the experience of the interaction and not the task of completion. This competence comes from developing a sense of self... being able to pull from your past an experience that is simular to a current situation, and being able to navigate through because of...