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5 Tricks To Motivate Your Child To Learn Better by Betasms: 10:41am On Oct 14, 2014



Motivation is a crucial thing. With motivation we can achieve anything in life. While adults can easily overcome lack of motivation, children have great difficulty in getting inspired. You kid comes home with constant C’s when you know he’s able to get A’s. Your concerns are understandable; you want to provide your child with a good future, which means higher education and well-paid job. However, your child is about laziness, irresponsibility and no interest in studying.On the other hand, children usually are motivated by completely other things. Have you noticed your son’s excited eyes when it comes to electronics or how enthusiastic your daughter is about drawing? The point is that kids should make progress in all the subjects in order to pass their final exams successfully. Take a look at my tips on how you can motivate your child to learn better. They do work!

1. Establish a friendly and open relationship with your child
Parents should be the most influential people for their kids. Unfortunately, many parents use threats, punishment and manipulations in order to gain authority over their children. But these methods will surely lead you to nowhere and only spoil your relationship. No matter how angry or frustrated you are, you cannot display these emotions. Try to understand that your child is not a good-for-nothing and he doesn’t do it on purpose just in order to make you crazy. Always strive for an open dialogue with your kid. Ask questions and talk about his subjects. Trusted conversation means your kid can share his thoughts with you without the fear of being criticized and punished. Children are often curious about things and they can be easily motivated when they understand that something makes sense or is important.
2. Incorporate games into studying
This trick is of ultimate importance for little kids. They get tired much quicker and it’s often difficult for them to stay concentrated on a certain task for more than 10-15 minutes. That’s why you should think up how you can divert your child’s studying. Try to stock up on bright and catchy study gear. A couple of notebooks with cartoon characters and colorful pens won’t distract your child but provide a good relaxation from time to time. Practice a dramatic reading with your child. This is the easiest way to get your child involved into the story and make him love literature. Another way to incorporate games into the process of studying is drawing and PowerPoint presentations. You must have heard that visualization promotes memorizing and concentration. Little kids accept information easier when they see it, thus you should use illustrations as much as possible. Various kinds of learning styles entertain the process of study and reinforce the desire to learn something new.
3) Focus on strong points
It’s difficult to be perfect in everything even for adults, not to mention children. Thus it would be much smarter to focus on your child’s strength and encourage his talents. Albert Einstein once said bright words about studying, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”If your child is good at math, chances are he will become a first-class specialist in this field. Being a good doctor is not about high grades in literature as well. On the other hand, you cannot tolerate bad marks in other disciplines. While concentrating on his favorite subjects, your child should also work at other disciplines. Try not to reproach your kid for his failures and low points.
4) Appreciate your child’s achievements
This tip is really disputed since many specialists believe that rewards are a false motivation and chances are the child will work for the sake of the prize only; others claim that material prizes or privileges are important and useful. Anyway, adults don’t go to their jobs because of the mere satisfaction either. We know that we get a paycheck and it’s a good motivation for us. If you child realizes that studying is important itself it is perfect, but some additional rewards will only help him to do better at school. I would recommend taking a middle ground. Every now and then you can give your child an extra hour of playing computer games, but other times you should praise him with your words or smile or just give the thumbs up.
5) Scrutinize your kid’s personality
Different children require different approaches, that’s why don’t get disappointed if a certain motivational technique worked with your older kid but it fails with your smaller one. Be attentive and watch every detail about your child’s character and temperament. For instance, introverts and extroverts need absolutely opposite approaches. Extroverted kids will feel comfortable about active games, quick change of activity and noisy siblings nearby, while introverted kids will find it impossible to concentrate unless they are given a quite working place and slow pace.
You should also pay attention to the period when your child is the most energetic and cheerful. Don’t compel you kid to do his homework once he gets home. Most probably the kid needs an hour or two of rest or sleep.

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