Parents Blog

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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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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