How you can help your child learn!

Learning is an integral part of childhood. Children are always learning, especially from the adults around them. However, their capacity to learn is greatly affected by their daily lives and their upbringing. And as a parent, you have an enormous effect on the same. So how does one go about looking for better ways to help their children cultivate their thirst for knowledge?

There are many ways to help children develop their capacity and willingness to learn, but what’s important is that the child must always choose it for themselves. 

Help them organize

Children are born chaotic and often require discipline and order to do it. However, helping your child follow a schedule will teach them how to manage their time, and condition them to partition their time between learning and other activities for the day. 

Inspire their confidence

Children are unaware of their limits and thus don’t believe that they have any. While it’s important to cultivate caution, it is also important for children to develop belief in themselves. If a child believes they can do something, many times that “something” can also include learning. 

Don’t condemn mistakes

Mistakes aren’t just something that went wrong. Mistakes are also lessons that one can learn from. However, a child will be more worried about the parent’s reaction to their mistake if it is one that they end up fearing. This will stop them from looking at the real goal, which is to learn from the mistake and never do it again. Instead, a gentle conversation will help them understand where they went wrong and what they need to do next time. 

It’s okay to fail

Children are very susceptible to pressure. And while its normal to fail, a child doesn’t necessarily know that. Added pressure in such situations will only lead to even more stress and cause them to fail harder because their mind is too focused on not failing to think about how to succeed. This can cause long-term problems. Instead, tell them its okay and that they can try again later. 

Online learning is also an excellent possibility for your child to fall in love with learning. The courses are designed with tools and trained mentors who prioritize one-on-one engagement and gentle guidance so the child will prefer to use the tools they are given to explore what they can do, while still maintaining a structure for proper learning and education. Enrol your child in some of our online coding courses, online Animation courses, and even online Robotics courses. 

However, to get started, we would suggest trying out a free online session with us so you can understand exactly how it works and what value it can bring to the table. Register with us at www.diyalabs.com and avail of a free session worth Rs. 750 that can be scheduled at a time of your convenience.