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

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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.

Lack of sleep affects kid’s learning

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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?

What time of day is best for effective learning?

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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?