Mind In The Making Summary

Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs by Ellen Galinsky stems from many theories. This book is intended for anyone who has or works with kids. Mind in the Making would be a great resource for people who are having children so they can see why these seven skills are so important and to get great tips on how to teach their children these skills. This book is also helpful to parents with younger children and for anyone who works with a child. For those who work with children: teachers, babysitters, and nannies would find this book very helpful as well with the many activities that she outlines. In this book Galinsky believes these seven life skills are important to teach children who are living in this fast-paced world. The seven like skills Galinsky finds important are focus and self-control, perspective taking, communicating, making connections, critical thinking, taking on challenges, and self-directed, engaged learning. Galinsky explains how in this “complex, distracting, fast-moving, 24/7, and stressful” (Galinsky,2010) world kids need these skills to be successful adults in later life. The first skill is about focus and self-control, in a study at Columbia University the researchers found that one of the skills that mattered most for “later success” was …show more content…
Galinsky named this as the sixth skill in these seven important life skills. I, like many other college students, know a lot about stress. Sometimes I believe stress is just another part of me. One suggestion that Galinsky gives to parents is that making a trusting relationship with your child helps them deal with life’s stresses. I for one think this suggestion is a great because when I am stressed I call my mom. Just knowing that she is there to listen to me and when I need her can help me reduce my stress. I would encourage all parents to let their children know that they can come to them for