Meta cognitive language is language that shows awareness of the other. So any kind of conversation that speaks about the other person\u2019s position, knowledge, understanding, feelings, reflects the speaker\u2019s understanding of their interaction partner. I think that at its sort of simplest form, researchers have generated lists of words that reflect that knowing understanding. I\u2019ve applied that in child care. So just counted how many times does staff use meta cognitive words like when they talk to the child, do you understand, talk about knowledge, talk about feelings? It\u2019s a very simple, straightforward to much more complex kinds of things like trying to resolve a difference whether it\u2019s between the child or an adult or between children working towards solutions that take both children\u2019s perspective in to account. So turn taking, sharing, things that in kind of the negotiation language to the extent possible are win-win. Seeing that as the ultimate goal so that both partners can have as much of what they want as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re finding that people could do a lot more of it across contexts \u2013 within families certainly and also in child care programs and early childhood education settings that there\u2019s not a whole lot of it going on and I think that\u2019s a really good target for interventions and training. And by interventions it could be just professional development opportunities for staff in child care programs just to sort of remind them, scaffold for them, that that\u2019s something they should be doing with the kids they care for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because it\u2019s associated with better social outcomes. So the kids who are good at it, who pick up earlier that other people have feelings and needs and rights, have better social interactions. It\u2019s true for adults too. But I think it\u2019s a reasonable skill to teach, not reasonable, an important skill to teach kids. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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