Strategies to Motivate your child to learn
Every personality is different from one another, and indeed, the character leads to what we like and don’t. Some kids love to learn and spend most of their time doing so and whereas there are also kids who need a little push in learning. It isn’t a thing that a kid who doesn’t like learning can’t be a learner at all. On giving the right encouragement and motivation, anybody can pick up an activity.
Most teachers and parents do wrong, limiting the learners’ ability to just what is planned. The classroom is a room for learning, sharing intellectual and social space, but if that is restrained to limited awareness, it does not help in their growth.
If giving the kids an environment to expand their headspace is a thought in your mind, head on here to learn more.
1. Firstly, create a space that encourages reading.
To reach a mind, one must-read. A kid given the experience to read is likely to adopt learning. The myth of reading a lot or less is not the matter here. It’s about creating an environment to help them teach the activity. Once thought of reading is frustrating sits in mind then, it is hard to get them back to reading and hence the family time should indulge in reading out aloud or asking the children to read helps them in imbibing the thought in tier mind, It creates a healthy space not just to grasp vocabulary but also enthusiasm to contemplate its meaning and lead towards learning.
2. Let them drive their activity.
Many parents indulge in pressuring kids towards a controlled environment just to study, or some are let free even to care. Such an environment drives them away from learning. Space must be such that it is controlled to enhance its ability and not the other way around the way of forcing.
In their learning time, be it at home or in school, they must be given a choice to pick what they like rather than just giving them a topic to write about. That way, it lets them expand their interest, and you get to analyze their skills.
3. Don’t disregard their opinions.
The atmosphere must be such that everybody is given a space to put forth their opinion. Though you disagree, the views must be mattered or considered. When it is disregarded, the urge towards even attempting to learn is evaded. So, remove the concept of ignoring one thought or opinion. Value it and try to channelize them to explore it further rather than letting them conclude it.
4. Let them have their interests.
Learning becomes interesting only when their interest is valued. Asking the kids to learn about space while they are interested in dinosaurs is an act of forcing. They tend to know only when they are reading about the things that interest them. So us being a parent should provide the resources that help them build their interest more. Offer them a book with the best content and let them develop their learning in the topic of their interest. And ask them their favorite thing about it.
5. Let them know all types of learning styles.
There isn’t only one type of learning, or that is solid. Visuals or audio or logical or social or physical ways of learning and every individual like their own learning. So it’s essential to introduce them in all these ways before they show disinterest.
6. Show the vibe of enthusiasm to them.
Learning should be portrayed as an exciting thing. As a parent, show enthusiasm in what you read in front of them. Let them know learning is like exploring discoveries that we are unaware of. While you share a fact, let them also know what created that enthusiasm in you, which can build interest in their minds.
7. Learning can now be enjoyable through game-based education.
These days game-based learning has come into play where they create interest in their mind through games. Games are usually entertainment for the kids, be it played seriously or in a funny way, the urge to win for the group or team for points is fun for them. If the game can imbibe such emotions in them, adding learning through the game concept can shift their attention to learning.
Final thoughts
Why are we stressing about making kids learn is to help them explore so many things that exist already in the world. The mysteries of every discovery have so much to teach us as this place is not a space for limited reality. Doing the above practice allows the kid to be aware of so many things and can be the right environment for them to flourish in their area of interest going forward. Hence this is an attempt in the article. Don’t mistake encouragement with forcing. It’s an entirely different aspect.
