Thinking is a complex process consisting  of many key COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS. These key cognitive functions can be classified into  stages and levels of thinking. They can operate in either a highly active state or a fragile state, or sometimes even remaining DORMANT in a child's brain, requiring  intensive coaching, training and guidance to ignite, activate and make them easily accessible and ready for application.

When the thinking functions of a child's brain operate in a highly activated state, their learning and performance is enhanced.
When these functions  exist in a fragile or inaccessible state children can experience learning difficulties, de-motivation and alienation

3 main stages of thinking

As your child prepares to engage in learning, problem solving or decision making, they tap into  the active thinking functions of their ignited brains. Their thinking occurs in 3 main stages:

• STAGE 1- gather and receive information signals,

• STAGE 2- process and make sense of those signals and

• STAGE 3- generate new outputs or solutions.

If their cognitive functions have been adequately ignited and activated and strengthened then they will have the ability to easily pass through these 3 stages of thinking.

However if they suffer from inactive, fragile or dormant cognitive functions then they will have difficulty with these 3 stages of thinking, resulting in poor academic performance, de-motivation and alienation from learning