 The truth is a lot of parents keep doing for their children the types of things they need to let them learn to handle on their own. Of course, a parent's job is to provide. But as a child grows, more and more responsibility needs to be turned over to them so he or she can learn to solve their own problems. This is a skill they're going to need when they're out in the big world as adults. So help your children learn to problem solve by using simple everyday scenarios to teach them three basic steps.