How to make children like learning is not an easy work. Children tend to choose playing better than learning school lessons. They also enjoy watching TV and playing with their computer. Many gadgets have variety of games and entertaining social media like face book, twitter and many others. Those games and new fun entertainments add more tasks that are complicated for parents to make children like learning school lessons.
Many students prefer watching TV to studying school lessons at home. I did a little survey how students spend their free time. I did not surprise of the result of the survey. Most my students that I took the survey spend their time watching TV, only a few students study school lessons at home.
This is the percentage of the survey. I am an elementary School teacher in Bekasi. It is a city in the east of Jakarta , Indonesia
There are some points that you can do to nurture your children learning habit. Here they are, first, you have to pay attention or care about your children school activities. How can you give this attention? You can ask some questions after your children arrive home from school. Well, you’d better not ask these types of questions “ How was your math lesson?” “ What did you study this morning?” If you often ask these questions your children may throw their bag and hit the door of their room. Instead of asking these questions you can ask “ How was your day?, did you have fun?” “ How was your friend, Nico?” Did he tell a funny story this morning? “ Your children will start to talk with these types of questions. Listen, response and give comments to keep the conversation going.
Second, you have to create a family, which likes learning. Family learning habit will be a model for your children to copy. You do not have to ask your children to do their homework everyday. You just need to turn off your TV or video games at learning hours. You can make schedule when no members of the family watch TV at the hours. If you can create this situation, your children will take their initiative to do their homework and open their schoolbooks.
Third, you pay more attention if your children suffer from reading deficiency. The level of reading deficiency may vary. You as a parent must know your children condition. You can talk to a physician if your children have physical factors that cause reading backwardness.
Last, you can you can take your children to bookstores, museums and tourism objects which have values of learning. These activities give image that learning is fun. Your children will remember their visit to a museum and compare with their history lesson at school. Going to bookstores give opportunities for your children to explore their interest in reading, Let your children sort their favorite book and bring the book home.
Learning does not have to open books but it can be a fun activity how to think and to solve a problem. Your children will love learning if they have perception and image that learning is like playing games. You cannot make children learning school lessons instantly. You need time to make your children get used to learning activities. You and your member of family have to be a model. A model that gives images to your children that learning is entertaining.
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