[New] The Traffic Light Game

Some children find it harder than others to make the move to thinking more logically about tasks. If they rely only on their emotions to guide decision making, they do not have flexibility in their thinking and it can lead to complex problems.

When something goes well, they feel joy but when it goes badly they feel disappointment. This feeling can stop them from developing a better repertoire of thinking skills which allow rational thought processes to be more routinely used. They need to break this negative confirmation bias.

Helping children measure their success can help them be more critical and less hard on themselves. The Traffic Light Game is where you award a child with a green token (or star/sticker) when they perform a task well, an orange one for when you see progress and a red one when a lot of work still needs to be done.

Seeing that there are colours other than red, shows them that there is room for hope and they will feel less disappointed.