Tips on Helping Children Learn
- Encourage a positive attitude about knowledge and learning
- Encourage persistence at a task
- Support attention to detail
- Develop flexibility in your child – broad experiences add to learning
- Value self-discipline and emotional self-control
- Offer opportunities to think and reason. Use “What if…” questions
- Model good listening skills
- Encourage sociability
- Model respect for the written word and books
- Help develop a sense of responsibility