Kids'Skills: A Playful and Collaborative Way to Parent and Coach Children
7 min • How to motivate children to learn new skills
Whether you are a parent, teacher, or a professional working with children or parents, this sophisticated AI app will help you learn and apply the solution-focused Kids’Skills method with confidence. The app incorporates an interactive AI coach, "Dr Ben", who communicates with you — in your preferred language — and supports you 24/7. Dr Ben answers your questions, responds to your reflections, and gives you insightful suggestions about how to handle real-life situations with children. Dr Ben can also compose personalized encouragement letters and allegorical solution-stories for your child. The app is like always having Dr Ben Furman — his years of expertise and his impressive reservoir of real-life stories — at your side.
You have learned 5 new solution-focused motivation strategies this week.
The app teaches you the solution-focused approach using daily bite-sized lectures, true stories and fun little quizzes. Its AI has been trained with impressive coverage of books, articles, interviews, podcasts and videos produced by Dr Furman.
Share a few details about your child — name, age, strengths, favorite superhero, and the current challenge — and Dr Ben will compose a warm, personalized encouragement letter or an allegorical solution-story tailored to your child — in your preferred language.
You will have Dr Ben in your pocket. Whenever you need, he gives you supportive feedback, answers your questions, and gives you advice of how to apply the Kids’Skills method in real-life situations.
Based on the information you give about yourself and your interests, the app designs a personalized learning plan for you. It then guides you, step by step, through your learning path adapting your curriculum to your questions, interests and the challenges of the children you parent or coach.
Watch Dr Furman explain concepts in his pleasant and easily relatable style.
Welcoming words every day tailored to you and matching your day's learning topic.
You will learn new hands-on tools and solution-focused strategies every day with the help of bite-size lectures.
The app incorporates a rich collection real-life stories told by parents and professionals to ensure that you understand the ideas you are learning.
This app is based on the idea of "learning by doing". Be prepared for interesting real-life activities and experiments.
Your personal plan is tailored to meet your needs. It takes you a long way, but once you are done, the learning continues.
At your request Dr Ben will composes highly personalized encouragement letters to your children.
Give Dr Ben a few details about your child, and he will create an allegorical story about an animal or another child who overcomes a similar challenge using the Kids'Skills method.
Dr Ben, your AI coach is available to brainstorm with you 24/7.
Your coach responds to your daily reflections with encouraging and insightful feedback.
About diverse topics, specially written for users of this app.
Watch the included teaching videos any time at your own pace.
Internationally renowned psychiatrist, family therapist, author and founder of the Kids'Skills method
I am a medical doctor and psychiatrist with a special interest in child and family therapy. While specializing in psychiatry in the 1980s, I discovered solution-focused psychology and became passionate about it. It's an optimistic and forward-looking approach to helping people overcome psychological challenges.
One day, several years ago, I was approached by two special education teachers who had become attracted to the solution-focused approach. They asked me if I would like to collaborate with them in developing a method based on solution-focused psychology for helping children overcome difficulties. Our teamwork over several years led to the development of a method that is called “Kids’Skills”.
Kids'Skills is based on the idea that the best way to help children overcome any kind of hiccups or challenges, is to stop focusing on problems and difficulties and to talk instead about skills that children need to learn or improve. This shift from trying to get children to overcome problems to helping children develop skills is a true gamechanger. Children don't like to talk about problems, but they like to learn skills - particularly if they can learn skills in a creative way and they are supported by the people who are important to them.
Kids'Skills has become increasingly popular around the world. I have personally been teaching it over the years in over 40 countries and literature about the method are currently available in more than 20 languages.
If you want to find out more about me and my work, you can visit my websites www.benfurman.com or www.kidsskills.org
Because the app gets to know you and your interests, it can tailor the learning experience to meet your personal needs and answer your unique challenges.
It only takes a few minutes to get going
Tell the app a few things about yourself so it can create a personalised learning plan for you.
See an overview of the topics covered in your initial personalized learning plan
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You will be greeted every day with a new briefing, lesson and assignment.
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There is tab in your app that allows you to see a graph illustrating your progress.
It only takes 2 minutes to get started
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You’re only a few minutes away from getting a personalized plan to learn how to use solution-focused psychology with your child or the children you work with - alongside Dr Ben Furman.
