Respond to what your child did without making it about who they are.

Listen more to help children feel heard and deepen your understanding of them.

Model the behaviors that express your values.

Support learning by following a child’s natural curiosity.

Support trying things out rather than rushing to help.

Support learning rather than turning play into a test.

Take stock of your path and redirect as needed.

Support curiosity and exploration rather than turning play into performance.

Walk the path that passed the test.

Test small stretches of the path you sketched.

Test your assumptions through small, real-world experiments.

Test your assumptions through informational interviews.

Clarify the assumptions you need to test.

Reduce risk by testing ideas first.

Cognitive blind spots can make it hard to know which ideas will work for us.

Sketch a path to the life you want.

A simple way to compare options.

Two simple ways to generate more ideas.

Define what you want to improve.

Check that your design goal can be acted on in the real world.

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