“We need to tolerate Uncertainty”.

I was reading a book review done by Laura Lee at switching classrooms.

This was my first time at her blog and she was sharing about the book Raise a Gifted Child by Carol Fertig.

Honestly, I have never seen this book before. Have you read it?

What struck me were two words in Laura Lee’s review.

 Tolerate Uncertainty.

I love that. We need to tolerate uncertainty in our children’s learning.

That dead space between their saying, “I have no idea…” And the lightbulb moment of “Oh! I know!“

We need to tolerate our kids uncertainty.
We need to give them time to process, think, test, reevaluate, test again and form their own conclusions.

We need to resist the temptation to fill in the blanks, spoon feed them the correct answers, and give them unearned rewards.

Uncertainty is not a bad thing.

Actually it is necessary, critically necessary for our children to grow to become free thinking intelligent individuals.

We need to be quick to ask, “What do you think?”
We need to be painfully aware that the uncomfortable silence is the space and time necessary for their minds to process the question.

This was a profound two word phrase to me.

Tolerate uncertainty.

Today, tolerate uncertainty in your life.
In your kids.
In general.

It is a good thing.


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