Cara Zelas

And I think critical thinking, like just think about the skills that kids are going to need to have in a job force that we don't know what's going to look like in 10, 15 years when our young kids are going to be there.

Like what skills are they going to need?

They're going to need resilience.

They're going to need creativity.

Um, they're going to need problem solving skills, growth mindset, all those good things.

And, um, that starts, I think in early childhood, um,

I think that the more advanced our technology becomes, the more intentional we have to be about teaching basic human skills.

I always say that parents are their children's first teachers and children

even as small babies, they're observing, they're watching you.

They are seeing how you carry yourself, how you speak to others, how you treat your partner.

And from this, they learn their cues.

So I think it's really important to say like the way you carry yourself through the world is like how your kids are going to carry themselves because that's, you're their first teacher.

Um, and yeah,

That brings me back to the manners piece of it's not just about please and thank yous, which is important to say.

It's about sort of just having respect and an awareness of others and just modeling it yourself.

Like how do you navigate the world that you live in?

Are you saying please and thank yous?

How can you expect your children to have manners if you don't carry the same manners?

So I think modeling is really important.

when it comes to manners.