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How can I promote and encourage my child's thinking skills and instinctive curiosity as a natural part of our homeschooling curriculum?

Invite Verbal Interaction: Regularly Ask and Encourage Questions and Answers

Build your youngster's thinking and language skills by asking questions and encouraging thoughtful answers and additional questions. Talk about what you are doing, and how and why you are doing it. Have discussions. Ask "what if" questions. Answer all those "why" questions, and if you don't know the answer, look it up together.

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