Go Design Thinking while Empathizing Your Parents

Let Your Child Understand Your Thinking Process

Are you ready for Design Thinking activity? This week, it's the go design thinking while empathizing your parents.

How to Play

Start telling one of your childhood stories, such as holiday, sad, or happy stories.

Tell your child to write or draw your story to help him/her make a visual representation of your childhood stories.

Allow your child to make a little bit sense of your feelings, memories, and mental models to sketch.

Step 1: Tell your story

Allow your little one to listen your story.

Story should be involved some emotions such as joy, sadness, anger, trust, fear, and/or anxiety.

Allow your child to write, draw, or sketches your stories.

Step 2: Conversation back and forth

Ask open-ended questions that allow your child to articulate your story and what it means to him/her.

Let him/her to use systems thinking approach to analyze the story.

Step 3: Drawing the graph

After the storytelling, allow your child draw on a piece of paper the stories you told her/him.

Telling him/her exactly the story what to sketch or showing him/her a sketch is not going to fuel his/her imagination.

If your child want to say something, ask him/her to express it through sketches. Draw the graph to represent your feelings based on your story.

Step 4: Time for your child to tell stories.

Let your child tell you the story of his or her life when she/he was happy, sad, or angry.

You listen carefully and use the line graph.

Compare your graphs is there any similarities and differences.