Teaching children how to think critically is an important task for parents-especially in an era where mutli-tasking, multiple interfaces and a stream of stimuli is a given. I watched a three year old show his dad how to run a video on an iphone the other day. This link is to an article about how 8 year old children attending a charter school are taught philosophy through questions. The article also mentions the book below on using children’s literature to teach philosophy.
Philosophical reasoning taught in the second grade. – NYTimes.com.