Unlock the Love of Learning
Originally Published: January 2000 How we interact with our children can make or break their self-confidence. Simple actions can make all the difference. Here are tips that take little time and only a minimum of effort, but will have terrific benefits: Sincerely and specifically praise each child for his effort. The confidence he feels motivates …
What do we do when kids don’t want to learn what we’ve set before them? Threaten them? Punish them? That seems to be the traditional approach. If we negotiate a trade-do this for me and then you can [fill in with something they want to do] or I’ll help you do [ditto] is it a …
When children struggle repeatedly without success, their natural reaction is to avoid that challenge in the future. And, so, kids “hate” math, or reading, or spelling, or. . . the list goes on. Is it possible for a teacher to tear down that wall of resistance, or must she simply become a drill sergeant demanding …