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Saturday, October 15, 2011

When Schooling Goes Modern


The technology today is very extensively interesting and easily accessible that almost everyone can use it regardless of gender and age. Not so long ago when kids were reading lots of books just to get the right references. Now, you can get more than that in just one click. The use of computers, smart phones, Ipads, and more makes this possible.

Parents can home school their children and teach them with the use of Ipads for counting and other basic mathematics. Special children will greatly benefit with the various free applications for Autism and other conditions.

In spite of that, children will also need to socialize. Whether parents prefer to enrol their child to a good public school or a private school, there are many things that they will prepare to influence the child.

For the first time, the child will separate to the parent; they will be both experiencing an anxious feeling of being separate to each other. One way to cope up with this kind of disturbance is to help the children see that there is nothing fearful with the new environment.

The teacher is the first adult that they will see in school, it would be a great help to meet her before the first day of school. Introducing the teacher to a child as a way of beginning an acquaintance helps everyone relax.

Giving the child a perception that attending to school is a natural and certainly an exciting part of growing up will help prepare them for the experience. Curiosity is natural to most children.  Helping them see the world through schooling will largely feed these curiosities.

Schools will assign some simple homework for the child to accomplish. Parents can help their children get acquainted with the challenge by giving them similar activities before the first day of school starts. With this way, kids will see the supposed-to-be-new task as something not very intimidating. Just be sure that these activities are age-appropriate and something that can be tackled by your child alone or with a minimal help. There are free Ipad apps such as for learning writing that you can find in the internet.

Parents should help their kids minimally. You should at least let them see some difficulties but not too much that will hurt their self-esteem and harm their confidence. Assess whether they can fulfil the task and basing from that, give them the right dose of responsibility.

If the parents are anxious enough, the child may see that there is really something to be afraid of in schooling. If that happens, it may be hard for parents to encourage their children.

People face trials and even commit mistakes for them to learn. Like how an athlete dealt with the ups and downs of his career to become a pro; and how he practiced before the big day of his match. Your children too, in time will have to face defeat. What parents can do is to support them to stand up and learn to become the best that they can be.

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