An often used format while coaching anyone, specially children, is to give the answer so that the child can get a quick gyan. Is this always appropriate?
When someone gets stuck with a problem and comes to a person for advise, generally the advise is dispensed generously, giving all possible solutions. The person who gets stuck chooses a solution and gets one’s task done.
For example, if my son comes to me for help to write a composition on say a cow, I can easily recite some 10 lines about a cow and he can write them down and the job is done.
Is there any issue with this method? When he has to write the next composition, he will come to me and I will have to help again, making him gradually dependent on me.
Is there a better way?
As a popular saying goes, donot tell when you can ask a question.
I can think with him to get some points for his composition, at the same time I can develop the thought process in him by choosing appropriate questions. Thus, he will complete the composition but also learns the process by which one can complete the task at hand.
The above may be a very trivial example. But the process can be used in many situations. Thus one can inspire a peer, child or subordinate to think on his own for a solution.
This, I found was most effective with children and after sometime, the children will become really self directed in many routine tasks.
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