Parents’ insights on how to improve children’s learning motivation

1. Parents are role models for their children to learn from

If you want your children to read, the best way is to let them see their parents reading. Parents can first explain to their children the joy and value of reading, and then share interesting stories they see with their children while reading, or demonstrate how to apply the knowledge learned in the book to daily life. There are also often quotes from books or newspapers.

2. Stimulate his interest and curiosity

When a child is interested in something or asks a question, do not feel impatient and answer him carefully. At the same time, parents can also use their children's questions to ask questions to increase their curiosity or interest in knowledge.

3. Let children regard reading as fun

It can help children understand the connection between reading and daily life, let them know the meaning and value of reading, or let children understand their future prospects. How does it relate to the book I’m reading now? Try to combine what your child has learned with life experience. For example, for simple arithmetic problems, you can take him to the market to find opportunities to practice; go for a walk in the back hill or park together to let him get in touch with nature; go to a building construction site to explain to him a simple crane. Or the principle of pulleys, you can also vividly explain to him how computers change our lives, etc. Even roadside signs or stationery with slogans can be good learning materials.

4. Let him get in touch with successful people

In order to improve their children's learning motivation, some parents will tell their children many stories of successful people, but this kind of indirect contact is difficult to achieve For specific results, it is better to first understand what occupations your children are interested in or think are important, and then take your children to meet people who are engaged in that occupation and let your children talk to them directly.

If your child wants to be an excellent entrepreneur, let him meet successful entrepreneurs, or find out relevant stories about those entrepreneurs; if your child wants to be a scientist, then go to various science schools Find out information about the most successful people in the field at the exhibition venue, and also find time to talk to those successful people. Let your children know what skills and knowledge they should have, what processes they should go through, how much time and effort they need, etc. if they want to be like those people.

5. Understand the level of children's basic learning

One mistake parents often make is to blindly require their children to study hard before they have a specific understanding of their children's level. At this time, children will think that their parents don't care about them and only value their grades. Therefore, it is best to understand the child well from what subjects the child likes, what his grades are, why the child likes that subject, etc., and try to communicate with him.

Similarly, it is also necessary to understand what subjects children hate the most, why, and what subjects children have poor reading results. If parents can work hard to collect information related to their children's learning, the children will be able to feel the efforts their parents put into their learning problems, and finally they will feel that they should pay more attention to reading.

6. Let the children understand their parents’ expectations

You can clearly tell the child what you want him to do, but you cannot force the child to do what you expect, because this On the contrary, it will reduce children's desire to learn. For example, don't just tell him vaguely: "I hope you study hard every day." Instead, tell him clearly: "I hope you can read math for an hour every night," or tell him specifically: "I hope you will study hard after class. You can practice English for one hour, "I hope your average score in this midterm exam will reach 85 points", etc. This way allows children to know their parents' expectations and also allows them to judge whether their parents' expectations are appropriate.

7. Teach children multiple learning methods

If your child likes composition, you can let him take composition classes, or let him participate in composition competitions. It is also good to let him Keep a family diary. If your child likes to play with computers, you can send him to a computer cram school or give him computer-related books so that he can be exposed to computers naturally. If your child is interested in history, you can suggest him to go to museums more. If you are interested in science, you can let him participate in science camps and so on.

8. Let children understand that success does not come overnight

Just like children must fall many times from birth to walking, everything in the world needs to go through many times. Failures and mistakes, and constant learning. No matter who or what you do, it is impossible to do well at the beginning. Therefore, we need to let our children know that even if they can no longer read, they must allocate time to practice every day. We also need to teach our children that doing too well at the beginning or working too hard at the beginning is not good. The most important thing is to keep working hard. Some parents see their young children doing something well and want to ask for more and ask their children to do many things at the same time. Not only do they have to study English or mathematics, but they also have to learn taekwondo, piano, violin, art, computers, etc. They are busy sending their children from one cram school to another cram school all day long. Of course, if the child is willing to learn on his own, there is no big problem.