Dr. Daniel Amen's Tips for Teaching Children Problem Solving Skills

As parents, we often care so much about our children's wellbeing that we will do whatever we can to make things easier for them. However, when we step in to fix our children's problem, are we helping them or hurting them? In this video clip, taken from Dr. Amen's television special "Raising Mentally Strong Kids", he reveals the approach you should consider taking when it comes to your kids' struggles in order to raise them to be mentally strong, confident adults.

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[JackSmith-wt]

What helped me the most with raising my children was the book ‘Raising Warriors: Preparing Your Children For a Godly Life’. It is honestly a game changer

[FamilyChannel-]

Some infrastructure must be in place before letting them do everything by themselves, though the level of Independence varies from child to child. Thank you, Dr. AMEN!

[syebethel]

This is so important ... for your children, for your grandchildren, for your community.

[Visionary]

I selected the video for learning to influence kids but I ended up learning how to speak.
He speaks well. His utterances fluency and flow of words are excellent. Every word landing at heart ❤️.

[blakehahn-atlantaga]

Self esteem comes from self efficacy. Thanks Dr Amen.

[crishuez]

I agree. There are resources for children who are struggling (tutoring). Otherwise, children should not be coddled to the point of being crippled in adulthood.

[missy]

I don't know if I 100% agree with this. My parents left me responsible for everything and I never developed those skills. I think a lot of this depends upon the child's personality. I'm interested in hearing more about this.

[mohammadmustafa]

As a mother iam agree with you sir love your lectures I learned alot thanks from quetta pakistan

[michaeleckert]

This is great advice.Thank you for your tremendous insight😂

[shisnnavzla.]

I love Dr Amen ❤ he is wise. Always he has solid arguments

[tesladrew]

The homework thing didn't work for me. I never did home work in 5th grade and was in ISS instead of recess for most of the year.

I still struggle with doing homework outside of class.

[scarewolfstudios]

When my kids come to me with the "I'm bored" problem. They get something to clean. They almost never come to me with that anymore

[cicekcicek]

As a teacher I don't agree. First you have to teach what it is like to be responsible for your homework and then step by step reduce the control. Otherwise it will lead to the opposite and the academic part will also be suffering.

[Jannett-iklh]

Teach them to solve but youll alsi be thete for yhem we as grown ups jad problems solving our own problems sometimes & have to gey help..man you know tell the truth

[mindsetresetwarriors]

What if you've been unconsciously doing this for most of the kids life and now they are pre-teen/teen and you need to start doing this to reinforce capability and confidence in your child? Do you have any material to help with working with older kids/teens that need this kind of suppport? ❤ Thanks for your amazing content. It has helped me change my life dramatically 😊

[omriblau]

Thank you for tip
From which kid age can I strat this method?
Does it will work on my 4 years old daughter?

[KimGreene-vkyz]

What about kids with executive functioning problems?

[dr.garimaschannel]

It’s a mesh of emotions with children. You want them to be skilled but sometimes kids assume that no one loves them for not doing HW 😢 My daughter a 4th grader starts playing victim and I have no counter for that.

[njoyn]

Sad thing is now, where I live (Ontario, can) they don’t hold kids back anymore. And they don’t seem to have consequences for not completing work. They put it on the parents responsibility.

[reasonbeing]

Affordable consequences...I call these natural consequences. I think it is helpful to lay them out for kids. It builds trust when they choose to fail and incur the consequences that you lovingly told them would occur. Don't exaggerate or lie to kids. Be realistic.