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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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Lack of sleep affects kid’s learning

Lack of sleep will adversely affect your ability to remember what you learned the day before, so say researchers at a top French University. Lack of sleep will therefore adversely affect your kid’s learning.

Nature magazine published this conclusion as far back as 1983 stating that REM sleep was required to enable the brain to process the information and the experiences of the day.

Without this sleep the brain was unable to delete superfluous information and pathways and would therefore be less capable of remembering and learning.

This is a very important message for the quality of children’s learning. What about during vacations and holiday times?

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What time of day is best for effective learning?

You have probably heard of people saying “I’m a morning person” or “I’m an evening person”, meaning that person does better in their daily activities at different times of the day.

This suggests that for learners the best time of the day may vary depending on the person and that effective learning for an individual will vary accordingly.

But what does the research say about the best time of the day for learning? Some research says that we learn better at different times of the day. For example, R Thayer suggests that effective learning is best carried out in the late morning and early evening. As a parent need you concern yourself with this?

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The Pygmalion Effect – School teachers and parents can improve children’s education with great expectations

Do you want your children to be a success at school. The greater the expectation placed upon children by teachers the better they actually perform in their education at school.

To say this in another way; when teachers expect children to do well in school that is what they do and when teachers do not expect them to do well they do not do so well.

This is a type of self-fulfilling prophecy and is known as the ‘Pygmalion Effect’.

In the world of education the effect was discovered by Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson and set out in their book ‘Pygmalion in the classroom’.

In their study teachers were told that a class had very intelligent students and that the teachers had to make sure that they were stretched. Though these were ‘ordinary’ school students they achieved brilliant results.

Why?

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