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Prior learning gives your children a big head start in school education and improved results

We are going to let you into a little secret. This secret is a learning technique, a key to your children getting ahead and improving results in their school education and at the same time makes their learning so much easier.

After we have told you the secret we are also going to tell you how you can use this knowledge to help your children and give them one of the best chances you can for their education and learning. To explain, the first thing we are going to give you is the results of some brilliant research.

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Are you a parent or a teacher? You can be both because you are already an expert!

Many parents do not naturally see themselves in the role as a ‘teacher and they could so easily be so and really help their children with their education.

“It’s not what I do. I simply do not have the knowledge to be a teacher to my children, it’s not part of my identity, and I leave all that to the teachers”.

This view that many a parent has was emphasised to me the other night when I was at a public speaking workshop. Here is what happened.

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If you don’t use your brain you could lose your mind

French neuro scientist Francois Dartigues has looked into the relationship between how intellectually challenging a job is and the likelihood of you becoming mentally impaired as you get older.

He concludes that if you don’t use your brain then its powers could diminish, so to help avoid this you need to keep your brain active.

One interesting observation he made was that retired farm workers were more than twice as likely as retired farm managers to become mentally impaired as they got older. The workers were considered to have had less intellectually challenging jobs than the managers and that this was the cause of the difference.

And what is the moral of the story?  Well, the way to keep mentally alert is to do things that challenge you intellectually, to keep your brain active.  How?

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Make your children laugh and their learning will greatly improve

Researchers have shown that laughing reduces stress and less stress results in improvements in learning. Less stress in your children will improve their learning.

When you are helping your children to learn, the moral of the tale is to get them laughing, telling jokes, having fun, and that way your children will more easily succeed in their learning and at school.

Happy children are motivated, stressed children do not want to learn.

So how can you help your children with their learning and give them a good time and make it fun?

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Teaching children – What’s good for teachers is good for parents – happy parents boost learning for their children

Parents, I’m sure that this will not come as a shock but it has been found that children are affected by the emotions of their teachers.

The children who have teachers, who are happy, funny, smile, grin and who love their work, do much better than children who do not have such wonderful teachers.Are you really surprised? No? I thought not,and nor were we when we read about this.The question that arises is this.

Is there a lesson in this for parents?

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