A healthy atmosphere at home is required to raise a healthy child. Love and care, as well as required support, needs to be given to the child at all times. A supportive atmosphere needs to be created at homes.
The parent needs to strive hard to make the child competent and confident. This home education before the child steps into the portals of the school is essential.
The focus needs to be on the learning abilities of the child and how the child will cope up in life in the years to come.
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1. Encourage Special Skills
Every child has no doubt unique gifts as well as talents. These special attributes can rather show up in a traditional school setting, but there are in fact plenty of children who do shine.
Activities such as a mommy-and-me music class or karate lessons can help in opening up their minds, but one’s wallet does not need to be involved. Unstructured play does help. Playing catch in one’s yard, dancing in the living room, and chasing after lightning bugs do provide required opportunities for intellectual, physical as well as personal development.
A person’s mindset can indeed influence behavior. One must praise the child for hard work instead of labeling him as “smart” or “talented.” People who indeed have a fixed mindset are of course usually reluctant to take on challenges as they do believe their achievements come from innate abilities. Those with a growth-oriented mindset are usually more willing to face challenges coupled with hard work as they do feel they are learning new skills.
2. Respect Different Learning Styles
Kids do learn well when musical, logical-mathematical, linguistic, and interpersonal traits are also developed. One does need to identify the specific learning needs of the child. One school -age child is visual, one can consider making use of flashcards in order to for him or her to memorize multiplication tables. In case, the child does fall into the interpersonal intelligence category then one can help him or her to improve his or her vocabulary by connecting descriptive words to people such as friends, relatives, and historical figures.
3. Read, read, read Applaud and Praise Efforts
When it does come to picking up a book and having story time with one’s kid, there is no such thing as starting too early. Reading to preschoolers as well as keeping books at home—encourages language development, reading skills, and future success in school. Even if one’s child is still too young to understand everything one will learn to notice the rhythms of language, which will indeed help him to build a listening vocabulary. In fact, reading to one’s child has been proven to help him emotionally.
4. Eat Dinner Together
Do not worry if cooking is not the smart skill one has. Bringing up a child well is also important. One has to groom as well as educate the childlike teach him or her about family values learning. Based upon a study conducted by Columbia University showed that children who do eat at least five meals a week with their families are more indeed likely to achieve higher grades in school and are less likely to develop an eating disorder. In case everyone in one’s home is on a different schedule and cannot enjoy dinner at the same time, find another meal such as breakfast or an evening snack when one’s family can sit together and also review the day’s events.
5. Balance Bedtime
Establishing a bedtime and maintaining is indeed difficult to do so. One has to try to turn off the computer and TV at least 30 minutes before going to bed. In case, the child has access to a cell phone, it is better to take it away before the lights go out. Give the child a lot of hugs before he or she goes to sleep.
6. Applaud and Praise Efforts
A person’s mindset can indeed influence behavior. One must praise the child for his or her hard work. People with a fixed mindset are usually hesitant to take on challenges as they believe their achievements come from innate abilities. Those with a growth mindset are usually more willing to face challenges with hard work as they believe in always learning new skills.
7. Give Hugs
One must hug the child often as he or she will feel wanted and cared for. A feeling of security is felt by the child. It is important to show affection to the child for his or her healthy physical and mental growth.
Parenting is an art by itself and much effort is required to take care of one’s child well.