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How can I help motivate my child to learn?

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Teach your child how to cope with stress
Studying is not stress-free. Studying for a difficult test, appearing in front of the class and other stressful experiences will all cause your child to feel less motivated to learn. Explain to the child that stress is a normal psychological reaction to something difficult or unfamiliar.

Tell your child how you dealt with fear and anxiety when you were at school. Teach them techniques for relaxing and dealing with stress. Let them know that you will always help them in a difficult situation.  

Explain to your child why learning is important and why you need to learn
Younger children find it hard to understand how what they learn in school will be of use in the future. All talk about their future at school and their job prospects seems rather abstract and distant.

Tell them about your own experiences and how your school experience has helped you to make it in life. Give examples from the lives of relatives and acquaintances who are important to your child and whom he/she wants to look up to. If you don't have anyone like that around you, think of famous people who have succeeded through hard work.

Notice the positive changes
For children to be motivated to learn, they need to see the results of their efforts. For example, a first grader learns to write well, to develop their handwriting. Save the notebook with a sloppy handwriting and then compare it with one that got better and show it to the child. Tell them the handwriting has improved through their efforts and will continue to do so if they work hard at it. A clear result of the work will increase the motivation of the pupil.


Good health
Weak and lethargic children are rarely successful academically - the brain and body are too much interconnected. Get your child enough sleep, exercise and a healthy diet and the positive effects won't be long in coming. One simple example - the omega-3 fats found in salmon, walnuts and kiwi have been scientifically proven to stimulate impulses in the brain, which helps with information processing and memorisation. Banning fast food and smartphones before bedtime certainly won't make you popular with your child, but they will thank you for it.

Communication skills
At school your child needs to be able to interact effectively with classmates and teachers, work as a team and react appropriately if someone offends them. Show your child what communication skills are - friendly and honest behaviour, good manners, the ability to consider other people's feelings, and the ability to take a stand if necessary.

Making smart choices
A young child should learn to set priorities and make decisions and take responsibility for them from an early age. How can this be achieved? Younger children can be allowed to choose, for example, what they eat for breakfast or what they do in their spare time, and older children can be allowed to choose subjects or extra curricular activities. Allow them to see the consequences of their decisions, even if they are negative - if you protect them from every problem that comes their way, they are more likely to grow up passive and unable to make decisions for themselves.

What not to do to avoid discouraging learning
There are things you should not do so that your child does not detest learning and school in general.

Don't force your son or daughter to study. Strange as it may seem, the surest way to discourage a child from learning is to force them to study. Children don't like to be forced into things and automatically reject things that they have to do by force. If your child doesn't want to learn, it is difficult to motivate them. Try to organise the learning process so that he or she wants to learn on his or her own, without pressure from outside.
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