You should ensure our children get adequate nutrition. Because the right nutrition at specific ratios appropriate for their age will help in better absorption and processing of knowledge for more effective learning. Besides nutrition, here are another three simple things you can do to provide our children with a healthy learning environment.
Tip 1: Widening Their Horizons
Your role is to expose your children to the world of information. We live in an amazing world, full of language, colors, ideas and experiences. Your job is to open their eyes to what is out there.
You can start when your child is still young by reading to them. Whether they be stories or books about geography and science, books expose our children to new worlds.
Taking them to places like the zoo, the aquarium, the museum, the park and lake gardens, a concert hall, or even the local store, gives them opportunities to learn new things. It is important that you do not keep them trapped in the house the whole day.
Tip 2: Child Initiated Learning
It is important for to let your children initiate the learning process, begin with what they are interested in.
If your children are interested in animals, then read them books about animals and take them on the trip to the zoo. If they are interested in planes, then take them to the airport to see the planes.
You will find that your child at age 3 to 4 years old will ask you many questions; like “Why is the sky blue?” or “Why do cars need petrol?”
These questions indicate that they are hungry for knowledge and you should encourage them to ask these questions by listening to them when they ask, and making a serious attempt to answer them. When you respect our child’s questions by responding to them, you send them the message that their learning is important to you.
Tip 3: Encouragement and Praise
You can help your children by praising their efforts to learn and always encouraging them, even when they make mistakes.
Sometimes as a parent you can be too competitive and you may focus too much on results rather than progress. You need to realize that young children learn at different speeds and each of them has his or her own unique strengths.
Learning is about discovery, and discovery is about trying something new. This is not easy. Trying something new involves taking risks – that is why when you child tries something new like reading or writing, his courage should be rewarded, not punished.
Loving encouragement creates a happy and healthy learning environment that will help your child attain their potential.
