How to Handle Reluctant Learners

How to Handle Reluctant Learnes

Reluctant Learners: Keep your Son Engaged with Learning

Parents of boys are more aware than anyone when their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they go from engaged to unengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. But as parents, we don’t always know what to do about that, and we hope the school will solve it. No! Let’s take back the power and pleasure of raising our boys, and figure out what we can do outside of school to help halt that potential slide down a slippery slope.

Ways to Instill Good Reading Habits In Your Child

Mom Reading with Son

How to Instill Good Reading Habits in Your Children

by A. J. Kenyon

As a parent, we need to find ways to encourage our children to read more.  A child is never too young to learn to read, even at an age as early as an infant.  A child’s brain develops rapidly from birth till the age of four.  An infant observing words and pictures and listening to words over time will become familiar with the words.

Modern technology increasingly changes our way of living; our child’s time is taken up with computer games, television, electronic games etc. Technology is taking away our children’s motivation to pull out a book and start reading. As parents, we need to encourage our children to make time to read and growing their imagination. Here are a few tips on instilling good reading habits:

How to Minimize or Possibly Prevent the Effects of Dyslexia in Your Child

How to Minimize Effects of Dyslexia in Your Child

Tips on How to Minimize the Effects of Dyslexia in Your Child

In his newest book, The Marvelous Learning Animal, Arthur W. Staats shares his findings on what can parents do to minimize their chances of having a dyslexic child.

  • Generate first language development. Continue to develop the language development of the child by constantly naming the activities and experiences that are being experienced.
  • Create a relationship of doing things together. In play and other activities, such as coloring in books, using toys, and having the child help in such things as simple chores.
  • When the child has developed good language for a two or three year old, introduce what Staats calls the “reading game” as directed below.

Reading Game: A Preventative Measure to Dyslexia