This is the next series of practical articles to help you and your children – Helping your Child Succeed in School. Let’s face it; school is another major puzzle in a child’s upbringing. It is their ‘training ground’ to the rest of their lives.
Doing well at school certainly helps a child with confidence, problem solving skills, education and knowledge, and information management and application, and results in a positive mental state of mind. The results do not need to be academic – it can be arts, fiction, sports, something practical….it is where the child’s strengths and interest is focussed.
More importantly, regular small ‘wins’ reinforce this positive state of mind, and creates a mental state which is more open to learn new things. This means allowing a child to excel or be brilliant in one area, and use this success to encourage success in other areas, also reinforced with other small ‘wins’. This continues until the child is confident with all areas taught in school. This flows into the child’s everyday life and you will notice a confident and thoughtful child. In reality, this confidence needs be gained only in 1 or 2 areas, and the results can be amazing. How to develop or nurture a child’s confidence is a critical key to this. A confident and assured child is far more likely to pick up positive traits, mainly because this serves to reinforce the confidence and assurance the child has already developed.
School tests and exams are a huge part in this process of gaining confidence. We as parents can have a massive influence on this, and in doing so, on how much confidence and assurance your child gains.
The next series of articles will cover some of practical do’s and don’ts. At MyBrilliantKidz.com, we are always looking for practical and easy to implement ideas, all of which are tools to help make your kids brilliant.
