{"id":241,"date":"2025-01-03T02:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/?page_id=241"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:12:35","slug":"read-the-problem-solving-technique","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/read-the-problem-solving-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"Read The problem-solving technique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The problem-solving guidance technique consists of 5 steps. At each step, the adult restates what each child has said, in order to know that they are heard and confirm their ideas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Identify the problem<\/strong> \u2013 ask the children to tell you what the problem is, giving each child a turn. This calms them and helps them think about it a bit as well as hear the other person\u2019s point of view.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ask them to suggest a solution<\/strong> \u2013 giving each of them a turn. The adult may need to help them think of some ideas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Help<\/strong> <strong>the children think<\/strong> about what will happen and how the other person will feel with suggested solutions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Try the solution.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ask the children to evaluate the solution.<\/strong> Was it a good idea? Do we feel okay now?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With repeated experiences, older preschool children will gradually be able to go through these steps themselves and begin to manage their problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem-solving guidance technique consists of 5 steps. At each step, the adult restates what each child has said, in order to know that they are heard and confirm their ideas.&nbsp;&nbsp; With repeated experiences, older preschool children will gradually be able to go through these steps themselves and begin to manage their problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-241","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/241\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}