| Just getting the attention of a high spirited child can | | | | focus when engaging in learning exercises. |
| be a challenge of a life time but being able to keep | | | | Because of this, you can utilize several techniques to |
| that child's attention is the true trick to helping them | | | | keep (or not keep) your child's attention. Many |
| spark their imagination in a sense that learning will be | | | | people have found great success in role-playing with |
| a fun and rewarding experience. Learning should | | | | their children. A lot can be learned by playing pirates! |
| never be confined strictly between the four walls of | | | | As your child is busy searching for lost treasure it |
| a learning facility. It should be ingrained in a child's | | | | you're responsibility to fill their heads with the |
| every day activates but far too often the mundane | | | | occasional fact or history lesson as you wander |
| tasks of educating a child are left solely up to the | | | | around the island with them searching for that lost |
| assigned teacher. | | | | gold! Don't forget to get lost in time with them. This |
| It's vital that learning be a partnership between a | | | | will not only help you with building educational bonds |
| child, their teacher, their social network and their | | | | with your child, it will also help foster an emotional |
| parents. If a child has this partnership they will surely | | | | bond with your child that will last through your entire |
| be set up to succeed in a world that demands more | | | | lives. |
| out of them at a younger and younger age! Once | | | | Utilizing visual stimuli is a great way to use playtime |
| this bond is formed you'll see your child learn in | | | | as a learning tool. |
| exponential ways that you likely thought wasn't | | | | Playmobil Toys for example has a large product line |
| possible. | | | | of toys that can be used to spark the imagination |
| Now, let's get back to the task at hand. You want to | | | | and turn playtime into learning time for your child. |
| be a partner in your child's learning but you have a | | | | Getting down on the floor and holding discussions |
| hard enough time getting their attention long enough | | | | with your child as you play will encourage the thought |
| to eat dinner or to take a bath! How on earth are | | | | process, question asking and will have an end result |
| you going to get them focused enough to learn? | | | | of a stimulated child. |
| Here is the fun part! Structured learning events with | | | | No matter what method you choose to interact with |
| parents should be at a minimum as this is the primary | | | | your child it's important that you participate in the |
| function of the teacher. A child must learn how to | | | | educational process to ensure your values are being |
| function in a highly structured environment in order to | | | | instilled into your child and that they feel you have a |
| function properly in socially when they are in their | | | | vested interest in their development. Who knows, |
| adult years. Again, this should not be your primary | | | | you just might learn from them along the way! |