Holidays are a period for relaxation, aren’t they? Everyone deserves them. Your kids deserve a break from their hectic academic schedules as well, don’t they? Yes, they do. But does that mean that there should be absolutely no studies during vacation? Well, it is not so. You can surely squeeze in a small amount of academically productive hours even without compromising on the holiday fun for your children.
Category: Youth
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.
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.
PSLE starts next week! How do we read more carefully?
Reading is a vital aspect of one’s success and development. You need to invest a bit of effort into making sure that your child learns how to read well. The points we have discussed are a good start for this. So, go on and discover the great wonders that careful reading can bring you, and ACE your exams at the same time! All the best!
It’s all a memory game! How to get your kids to remember what they’ve learnt?
The human brain has its own limitations and you just cannot feed every single bit of information into it for eternity. But that doesn’t mean that we can’t try our level best to store as much as we can. Is there something that we can do for this?
How to prepare well for the final year examinations?
A lot of us might be reminded about our exam time struggles when we help our kids with studies for their final year exams. There is bound be a lot of tension and at times even frustration during the process. But effective management of the situation is needed. As a parent, this is the time when you can step in and ease things up for your little ones.
How to boost your child’s confidence level?
Confidence is an essential ingredient for success and that we as parents are responsible to see to it that our kids do gain confidence in their abilities. So, some of our Primary Six kids have gotten back their Preliminary exam results. Yes, they may not have performed as well as hoped, hence, it’s time to help them create the self-belief in themselves again.
