Future-Proofing Your Child for Success in the Coming Economy

Forbes’ contributor Tine Thygesen has a piece for parents: The One Thing You Need To Teach Your Children To Future-Proof Their Success.

The world your children will live in is going to be vastly different to your own. Therefore they need to be taught new skills to enable their future successful. That has one very practical implication which parents need to be aware of.

The article reminds us that our children will be coming of age in a very different economy and technology-centric world. How can we equip them with the skills that will let them be leaders, professionally successful, and adaptable in this new world?

Thygesen points to the importance of teaching children how to learn — that in the future, we will have to learn new technologies and new interactions with increasing speed, so our children will have to be continuously learning and adapting to work well in this world

We have crafted our STEM Family activities and pathways for exactly this purpose: to help parents establish the building-blocks of tech-thinking, computer science, and design innovation with their children. Instead of waiting for schools to teach kids how to understand complexity and understand complicated technology and systems — we help parents do this from age 3 and up.