Don't ever think that 'he is a kid, he may not need to know
this' or 'he is a small boy, he cannot do this'. Give children
enough opportunity to oknow and do. Young can learn and do
almost everything and this ability should not be killed by our
attitude towards them. Only the children need a proper guide and
some training on 'how to perform', whether it is swimming, cy¬
cling, athletics or gymnastics. The same thing applies to games
or music. What is not encouraged and grown from childhood would
die by adolescence. To develop self confidence in children, what
is essentially needed is self confidence in parents that their
children can do. No body is born great or gifted. Everyone is
made gifted and great by proper training, guidance, hardwork,
sincerety, encouragement and recognition.
Buy instruments and keep it within the reach of children.
Buy tennis racket within their reach. This is a way to attract
the child to what you want him to do. Encourge him to touch and
try the instruments and such other things. Train, enthuse and
guide. Don't tell the child
Don't touch it, it may get spoiled
Don't do this; Don't do that
These negative directions actually encourage inactivity. Always
encourage if they start doing anything. Active role of parents
is a must in child development.
Make sure that children are kept active without feeling the
rigour. Children shiuld never feel learning as burdensome.
Better learning can be achieved by associating lerning with play
and wholebody movements. Children turn indifferent to learning
whey they are loaded with responsibilities and compelled to be
seated doing his work. This is not only bad, but also certainly
harmful because it is this element that make children want to run
away to feel the freshness of the air.
Parents who expect children to labour under columes of books
and notebooks are not only blid, but also deaf for they cannot
hear the cry of the child for freedom.
Parents have to change their own perception of education and
make the atmosphere change for the child. Let the parents go
through the syllabus of their children and learn themselves and
then 'talk' to the child casully and interestingly on the sub¬
jects. Let parents make children ask questins to them on sub¬
jects and let parents feign ignorance or provide only incomplete
answers. Then they would see children taking pride in completing
the answers and trying to teach the parents. Let parents in their
'talk' to the children raise doubts on certain points, the answer
to which they already know. In this game, children would take
interest and turn curious. Now it is easy to make the child read
the lesson and find answers. This is recreational studying.
Help children to make experiments at home. It is very much
possible to turn the house into a laboratory. Even if your house
does not provide enough room for the purpose, all the parents of
the locality can join together and provide for a small room where
children can do experiments. For that matter the experiments can
be done even in a verandah or in the open.
Children should be introduced to various forms of learning
where is ability to observe and curiosity to know are encashed.
If the parents take interest in self learning first and then
behave with children friendly and cooperative, there is nothing
that cannot be achieved. Parents attitude can create more intel¬
ligence in the children than piles of books.
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