Habit 6: Synergize
Parent Resources- *The information below comes from 'The Leader in Me' Parent Guide.
Synergy is when two or more people work together to create a better solution than either would have thought of alone. It's not your way or my way, but a better way. Synergy is taking good ideas by making them better by working together.
Younger-Child Activities
1. Read Chapter 6 of the 7 Habits of Happy Kids with your child and complete the Parent's Corner, if you have the book.
2. With your child, choose a problem you may have (curfew, chores, homework, etc.) Use the Synergy Action Plan to summarize your child's solution and your solutions. See if you can reach a better solution than either of you would have come up with alone.
Synergy Action Plan:
-Define the problem
-Share your views
-Think of solutions
-Choose the best solution together
3. Institute a "15 minute program" where everyone drops what they are doing and pitches in to work as a team to clean the kitchen, pull weeds in the garden, wash dishes, etc.
Primary-Age Children's Reading List, Habit 6: Synergize
Synergy is when two or more people work together to create a better solution than either would have thought of alone. It's not your way or my way, but a better way. Synergy is taking good ideas by making them better by working together.
Younger-Child Activities
1. Read Chapter 6 of the 7 Habits of Happy Kids with your child and complete the Parent's Corner, if you have the book.
2. With your child, choose a problem you may have (curfew, chores, homework, etc.) Use the Synergy Action Plan to summarize your child's solution and your solutions. See if you can reach a better solution than either of you would have come up with alone.
Synergy Action Plan:
-Define the problem
-Share your views
-Think of solutions
-Choose the best solution together
3. Institute a "15 minute program" where everyone drops what they are doing and pitches in to work as a team to clean the kitchen, pull weeds in the garden, wash dishes, etc.
Primary-Age Children's Reading List, Habit 6: Synergize
- Swimmy by Leo Lionni
- Ox-Cart Man by Donald Hall
- A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
- Clifford's Spring Clean-Up by Norman Bridwell
- How the 2nd Grade Got $8205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty by Nathan Zimelman
- City of Embers by Jeanne DuPrau
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
- Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech
- Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
- Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarian by Brandon Sanderson