How to Help Your Children Excel in Studies
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Children who do good in studies enjoy more advantages than others. Hence its very important to help your children maintain good academic record. Here are 10 ways to help your children excel in studies:
1. Give Them A Good Start
Young children are learning machines. They learn faster than adults. You can give your children, especially if they are below five years of age, a good start in education by using these simple techniques…
a) Read aloud stories from books. This helps to develop reading and imagination skill in children.
b) Talk a lot with your children. This helps to develop language skill.
c) Put on music for young children. Teach them to sing simple songs. Research is showing that music is not only good for overall health, but it is good for brainpower too!
d) Explore things with them, like—toys, various objects at home, plants, flowers, etc. See, touch, turn around the objects in your hands along with your children. Ask questions and discuss the objects playfully. This helps your children to learn more about their surrounding world.
e) Answer your children’s questions. If you don’t know the answer, then try to find it out together.
2. Have a good library in your home
a) Atmosphere of reading, learning and parents’ habits strongly influence children’s behaviour. When parents take interest in reading, their children also develop interest in reading.
b) So build a library of good books in your home. Display books prominently in the area where children see most.
3. Link School with Fun
a) Many children don’t like to go to school. Hence, you can use some simple tricks to arouse their interest in school.
b) Don’t just ask about what was taught in school, or what homework has been given. First ask your children, “What interesting thing happened in school today?” “What fun you had in school today?” “What you and your friend did in school today?” This would make your children aware of enjoyable things in school.
c) Such questioning creates an impression in children’s mind that school is not just about teachers and studies, but it is also about friends, play and fun.
d) Also, if your children do not like to go to school, then check whether they are having any problem at school (for e.g. bullying.) Then try your best to solve it. You can also ask the teachers to help you in such cases.
4. Let them dance to their own Rhythm
Every child may not like to get up early in the morning or do homework right after returning from school. Some like to play first. Some like to study at night, some at morning. Then there are children who want complete silence during studying, while others don’t care if there is silence or not.
Let your children study at a time when they feel comfortable. Let them study in a style they like—what matters is that they should complete their study work on time and learn the study material properly.
5. Replace Scolding with Selling Benefits!
Children get easily distracted by TV and games. Parents have to repeatedly remind them to sit and study. Once a parent told us that his son did not study regularly, even when he scolded him repeatedly “Study or you will fail.”We asked him to use another trick. We told him to remind his son to study by saying, “Study well, you will live a rich life.” Soon his son scored 85% in exam, which was a big improvement over his past performance!
Scolding is not known to give good results. But we have witnessed miracle-like transformation of disinterested students into top performers, when they were made to realize that good performance in studies leads to rich life style. And poor performance leads to poor living.
6. Don’t Do Negative Programming
“You are so lazy, you don’t do your homework.”
“You are dull, you don’t remember anything.”
“Study, or I will shut you up in your room.”
If you think this kind of remark will make your children reach eagerly for their books, then forget it. More probably, they will be hurt and angry. Even if they do reach for their books, they will not be reading it happily. What’s more damaging is that, if children are frequently scolded, threatened, or worse, beaten to do their studies, then they begin to associate studies with hurt,fear, anger, and pain. That’s why many children find excuses to avoid studying when they grow up.
7. Help Your Children to Use Better Study
Success in studies depends very much on mental attitude and use of smart study methods. Our experience shows that even a failure or average student can improve his or her performance by using better study techniques eg methods To Learn Fast and Score High
8. Encourage Your Children To Be Curious
Answer your children’s questions. If you don’t know the answer, tell them, “Let’s search for it together.” And search for it in books at home. Or bring books from library. Or look it up on internet. Such actions will make your children realize the value of knowledge, expose them
to methods of searching for information. And also make them happy that you care enough to answer their questions.
9. Connect Learning With Day-to-Day Life
I had once gone to picnic with a group. In our group there was one couple with two young boys. As we were traveling on the road, the father pointed out, “Look, that is the area where mining is done. You have a chapter on it in your science textbook, isn’t it?”His two boys looked out of the window excitedly and began rattling off, “Yes, we have studied it. The name of this mining area is…” By pointing out the mines, the father had brought the topic out from the textbook into real life, thus making it more interesting for his children. Indirectly he made his children realize that what they study in books have value in real life. Whenever possible, link what your children study with everyday life. Show it to them. Find ways to use the information in daily life. If they learn about plants, ask them to study the plants in the garden. If they learn about animals, take them to zoo. Pay visit to museums and science exhibitions. Now this may not be always possible. But do this whenever you can. Try to make learning interesting.
10. Give Them The Edge
Thousands of students pass out of college every year. How can your children stand out from this mass of degree holders? How can they survive and succeed in this age of cut-throat competition?
Give them additional, practically useful training. Like, Training for…
a) using their mind power more efficiently
b) using better study techniques
c) learning skills essential for career development
d) sharpening creativity
e) managing stress
f) developing good personality, etc.
Such training helps to build positive mental attitude, winning qualities, success skills, and inner confidence. This in turn translates to—success, peace, satisfaction and good life.
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November 21st, 2007 at 12:07 pm
dude, you own! this looks identical to a photograph
November 21st, 2007 at 12:07 pm
it’s almost like a photo
great painting 
November 21st, 2007 at 11:04 am
Until she's old enough for a school of the performing arts, she has to learn her basic studies needed to get along in the world. Most kids can barely read…let alone spell. They expect more now because most children go to daycare now where they are taught all the things we were taught in kindergarten and grade 1. They are bored if they are not stimulated. I put my son in daycare at age 2 and he was reading by age 3. They just absorb things faster the younger they are.
Chances are singing and dancing are not going to get her a quality, high paying job. So pat her on the back when she does well but do her a favour and make sure she studies all other subjects with as much intensity. She'll feed off your attitude so if you let her know math, reading, geography, history etc are important, she'll think that too.
November 21st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Navigation and button presses use different types of learning than traditional academics and specifically types that any successful complex species is adept at.
These things use spacial and kinesthetic memory. These are two types of knowledge that have been vital to our survival as a species enabling us to manipulate tools, move around, eat, &c.
Games, fun games anyway, have a rapid reward cycle.In minutes I can achieve a fulfilling success. I can do this time and time again.
Now, in comparison, doing algebra in middle school may never actually have a reward let alone a reward cycle depending on who you are and what you do with it.
Games, in general, tap into primal things making them exciting. Conquest, power, fighting, running, survival, you name it, if it is something that we do to survive we will generally like to play at it.
This can be found across many species and is very obvious with cats and their games.
Now, in contrast, how many games do you see that focus around solving equations?
I don't' see a million dollar industry of games focused around reading and interpreting great literary works.
These are not seen because they do not tap into our urges and tendencies.
I am sure that if we had electrodes in our brains that stimulated the areas of our brains that dealt with the reward system every time we read a book, solved and equation, or something related to academia we would not see these issues. We would be crunching numbers all day with such a system in place.
To sum this up, we are primal and repurposing our minds to do things that are not directly related to our survival. Thus, it is very difficult to convince our brain that this boring crap is important.
November 21st, 2007 at 7:59 pm
wich program he is for doing this ? beside a tablet ofc
November 22nd, 2007 at 3:23 am
Nothing in life will haunt you as much as the "What ifs" in your life. I'm not advocating throwing away everything your worked on to pursue a dream, but you are young and should open yourself up to exploring those "What ifs" now.
You never know what will happen in the future. Any opportunity to chase that dream now may not be present in the future.
I got a degree in Computer Programming, because it came easy to me. I started working as a Systems Analyst, because it was a career path. I am an amateur artist (drawing, sculpting, photography). My dream was always to travel the world, be inspired, and be an artist. Since there were many more starving artists in the world then IT geeks, I went with the practical path.
Now I am a father of 2 kids, and have a family that demands most of my time. Art is something that takes a backseat to everything else now in my life. I don't regret the blessing of my children, but I wish I could have taken the time to explore the not so practical path before being the responsible adult.
Chase your dream…the practical choice will always be there. The not so practical choices aren't guaranteed to be there.
November 22nd, 2007 at 1:36 pm
HOLY CRAP! Comparing this to the original picture, they’re identical!
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:18 pm
i use photoshop
November 22nd, 2007 at 7:46 am
March.
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Awesome work Williamsshamir
Great video.
Much love Kat
November 22nd, 2007 at 9:34 am
A child's personality has little to do with successful parenting. I'd say, they both are doing a good job because both children succeed in their areas of interest. Parent's can't push their child to do something they are not good at or completely uninterested in. You can't force a shy and introverted child to be outgoing (trust me, I was the shy introverted child). With child #1, the only issue is with academics. All children need to focus on school and parent's need to help their child in that area. If the child is simply a "C" child, that's OK, but if they are actually failing classes, that's not OK. That's where the parents need to step up and help the child along.
November 23rd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
How many times did you binge drink during early pregnancy (0-8 weeks)? Once or twice. Before I found out I was pregnant, I would go out every night, and drink a lot. However, I got very tired as soon as my body recognized the pregnancy. I stopped going out when I got tired, which was probably around week 3 of my pregnancy, technically, I was only 1 week.
Did you binge drink at any time between 8-36 weeks and if so, how many times and in which trimester? no
What week/weeks did you binge drink? n/a
Did you take other drugs or medications known to be harmful (including all recreational drugs): no
Did you smoke?: no
What gender is your child? male
How old is your child now? six
Does you child exhibit any of the following behavioural traits: Hyperactivity, easily distractible, high risk-taking, agression, inhibition,
or other? very hyperactive (at home), aggressive (at home)
How is your child achieving academically? has troubles in language arts
Gifted
High achiever
Average
Slightly Below average (perhaps skilled in other ways)
I would say he is below average in language arts, speech and some gross motor skills, but above average in other areas, especially spacial tasks
Does your child have difficulty in any of the following areas: decision making, mathematics, vocabulary, recalling details, visualing things, mental arithematic, puzzles, word games.
Does your child excel in any of these areas? refer to above
If older, has your child attended College/University? n/a
Was your child slow to meet developmental markers i.e learning to talk or walk? has attended speech since he was 3
Was your child early to learn? he can do 300 peice puzzles
Does your child have a diagnosed condition? (such as FAS or ARND Aspergers or Epilepsy). PDD-NOS
Does your child have any physical 'defects' – cleft palate, cleft lip, FAS facial characteristics (flat groove between nose and upper lip, narrow droopy eyes, thin/barely visible upper lip, short flattened nose), limb malformations. no
30 minutes ago – 3 days left to answer.
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:47 pm
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November 24th, 2007 at 7:41 am
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November 24th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
awesome stuff man,….ama practice hard to get to yo level!
November 24th, 2007 at 9:50 am
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November 24th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Savants are very very rare. A lot of Asperger kids will focus on one subject and excel at it. I can see your point, I really can. But in early education it is important to get kids to expand their interests. I have a child who can tell you anything you want to know about vacuum cleaners, he loves them. He is probably a vacuum cleaner genius. But other kids don't want to play with him when he refuses to discuss anything else. Even though he does love vacuum cleaners he does want friends. So helping him step out of his comfort zone (which is comprised of …you guessed it probably…vacuum cleaners) and engage in other interests is beneficial not only to his overall well being as a person, but to his developing social skills. No matter how smart you are, you need social skills.
There are a lot of kids which excel in one area, but we still have them study a variety of subjects. We do this to help them develop as well rounded people. Overall academic, emotional and social development require a well rounded curriculum. This holds true at all grade levels including college. Specializing comes in grad school usually. Why should we offer anything less to savants?
November 24th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
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