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As the director of an innovative school programme designed to help children of all ages become more independent, more critical and more creative in their thinking, C. J. Simister is in demand throughout the UK and internationally as an expert on this subject. She is a Cambridge graduate whose regular and hugely popular workshops for parents are frequently described as ‘excellent’, ‘thought provoking’, ‘mind blowing’.

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Subtitled, "How To Teach Your Child Essential Lessons For Life". Helps parents instil basic qualities such as perseverance, assessing risk and problem solving.

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Introduction

1. How to stimulate independent thinking

2. How to grow a vivid imagination

3. How to be alert and observant

4. How to kindle a burning curiosity

5. How to develop a ‘let’s find out’ approach

6. How to encourage originality and creativity

7. How to become innovative and inventive

8. How to discover the magic of persistence

9. How to take the right sort of risk

10. How to learn from failure as well as success

11. How to sort sense from nonsense

12. How to think flexibly

13. How to make wise decisions

14. How to enjoy solving problems

15. How to have ‘social savvy’

16. How to develop initiative and forward thinking Background reading