How to increase your child’s learning

Wow after a title like that, I would be expecting a cure-all! However, learning does not work that way, at least, not that I am aware of. I do want to point out there are methods that can aide an increased awareness for yourself, which will lead to enhancement of your child’s learning.

Working Together
To work out the conflicts

Parents and children can work together actively in handling difficult situations.
Here is a list to teach children to resolve conflicts in 5 basic steps (Faber and Mazlish, 1996: Fields and Boesser, 1994):

· Identifying the problem
· Generating possible solution(s)
· Agreeing upon a solution(s)
· Implementing solution(s)
· Evaluating solution(s)

Is it really that simple?

The five steps of problem solving sound so simple. However, in the real world, with real children, solutions often do not come easily or neatly. After all a problem is a problem because, it involves at least two opposing points of view. When one or both do not get exactly what they want, the struggle continues. Emotions run high, and patience wears thin.
Although it may sound simple, the changes require time and energy. Despite the difficulty it is worth the effort. Children learn to talk about their problems instead of hidding them. Children need to take responsibility for controlling their behavior.

In essence, they actively work to build a positive social environment. (Marie w. Sloane)

Focusing attention on work

1.Do not force your child to sit for a long time. They can’t. A good rule of thumb is to take your child’s age and subtract 2. The # that you come up with is an estimation of the maximum minuets sitting time your child should have.

2.Arrange for them to move at intervals planned by you.

3.Create short-term goals for your child so they can realize more successes, and find activities that will absorb the need for active learning.

4.Make improvement your goal.