Multiplication tables are one of those things which everyone has to learn. multiplication tables are traditionally things that have been learnt a certain way over the years. People know they can learn their Multiplication Times Tables, but these are taught to us in a rote fashion, and to get them right takes a long time and a lot of effort.

This means learning a multiplication table is slow, unproductive, and involves too much thinking, as we are taught them in a linear fashion, for example–

Schools still learn as

1 x 2 = 2
2 x 2 = 4
3 x 2 = 6

By reading or saying your times tables out loud repeatedly, or using some another form of repetition.

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.

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This is the next part in the my brilliant kidz re-programming series and the first in the self talk mini series.

Most people have not heard affirmations, self talk or incantations or know what they are. We thought it would be important to give our readers an overview of this useful but little known technique.  You do, however, need to remember that this is a technique to help re-program yourself, and in order for it to work, the nature of this technique is that it has to be applied repeatedly, consistently and needs to be reinforced. The good news is that once you have set it up (which does not take long), the whole technique takes 5-10 minutes, meaning that you can repeat it as many times as you like and almost anywhere.

Why do we need to do this? The answer is to improve ourselves in order to create a daily positive environment that our kids can copy the good and the positive from, giving them a greater opportunity to excel and be brilliant kids. A small change in our daily lives can have a huge impact on our children!

Put simply the effect of these small changes can change the status from a position of “Rubbish in, rubbish out” to “quality in, quality out”, from a stressful situation to a less stressful one. If you imagine driving and someone tries to race you at the lights, this can make the difference between staying calm and carrying on your way, or getting caught up and racing, getting booked and regretting it afterwards and paying a fine plus penalty points on your licence. I hope you see the point now.

You achieve this with your tongue – through self talk, daily affirmations and incantations, and then reinforcing this other techniques.

When you “self talk”, your brain’s sub conscious ‘listens’ – actually it is listening all the time – the more it listens, the more it believes.

Think about this. If 1 person tells you are wrong – there is less of an impact than if 100 people told you that you are wrong. The chances are that they maybe correct in their assessment, and therefore you are more likely to believe them. This is your brain and sub conscious believing the 100 people.

You can now use the same principle to re-train your brain to believe that you are what you wish to be or that you do will not act in a particular way. Through your self talk you are telling your brain this repeatedly, until it starts to believe. When this happens, thought processes and habits will start to change.

So how do you go about creating a program for yourself. Your self talk should be about your goals, your desires, what you want to become, what habits you want to change and must be positively motivated.  

Now you have a better understanding of what self talk is and how it works, and the impact it can have in helping our excel and becoming brilliant, we will look at how to create the program in the next article.

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