“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence”. These are the words of the legendary Helen Keller who through her life showed us that no matter what difficulties we are faced with, a determined and confident mind can always find a way to succeed. But let us examine the predicament of our school-going kids. How confident are they today?
Category: Skills
How to optimise my child’s learning?
A good bonding with your child that is constantly nurtured with quality parent-child time would make you better aware of your child’s strengths and weaknesses and the specific challenges that she faces at school. Identifying the challenges is the first step towards optimising learning and spending quality time with your child would help you in this process of identification.
Handling the PSLE results – stay calm and look forward
We live in a highly competitive world and at times all of us get carried away. As parents we may want to see our children finish at the top spot in everything that they do. When they do not achieve this or fare badly, it might disappoint and frustrate us. We might also be drawn into a more devastating vice – comparison.
Need to improve Understanding? Let’s Build Practical Knowledge!
Practical skills are in high demand in the 21st-century workforce. In addition to this, these skills also help students to understand things in a better manner as well. Aren’t these reasons enough to set about building measures that can enhance one’s practical knowledge?
Can videos enhance the learning experience?
We have textbooks to learn, don’t we? Then why do we go to the classroom even at the university level? The thing is that while we are capable of reading texts and learning on our own, all this requires a lot more effort and drains more time. But there is a problem in the classroom mode of learning as well.
How to add Value to Classroom Learning Sessions?
Our kids end up spending a lot of their time in classrooms, don’t they? Obviously, the time spent in the classroom is one of the essentials of our education system. But as parents, there is something that we should ask ourselves. How productive are these sessions turning out to be for our kids? Is there something that we can do to ensure that our kids make the most out of the time they spend in classrooms.
Helping your child focus better when studying!
It helps you stay away from stress and helps you live with an open mind. An open mind is always open to learning new things and will obviously help kids improve their focus on studies.
Let’s learn from our Mistakes!
Whatever might be the reason, it is your job as a parent to figure it out. Get to the root of it and help your kid overcome the inhibitions to own up to his mistakes. This can start by letting your kid understand that mistakes are natural and that whatever the case may be, trying to disown one’s own actions is just an act of cowardice.
Eeks! PSLE Math is tomorrow – Help me not to be careless!
Do you think that there is a relationship between fear and performance? More often than not the fear of failure makes us underperform. The fear of math is one of the main reasons for our clumsiness. The more we are able to keep a calm mind, the better we shall be able to perform
3 more days to PSLE! How to optimise last minute revision?
Make your kid look at the list of the important topics which are part of the syllabus. Make him read out each topic and map in his mind everything that he studied about it. Make him narrate it to you. This exercise of recollection can help him access the information more easily when he is in the exam hall and is less time consuming as well.
