9 Tips about how to help your child love learning
Achievement, Activity, Behaviour, Children, Counselling Tips, Education, Emotions, Experiences, Family, Father, Learning, Mother, Parenting, Positive Behaviour, Raising Boys, Raising girls Gail Smith Achievement, Activity, Behaviour, Children, Counselling Tips, Education, Emotions, Experiences, Family, Father, Learning, Mother, Parenting, Positive Behaviour, Raising Boys, Raising girls Gail Smith

9 Tips about how to help your child love learning

Learning is a crucial part of life and the development of a child. Here are nine simple parenting tips which may encourage learning for your child.

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Choose your battles. That’s the best win.
Behaviour, Children, Communication, Confrontation, Councelling Techniques, Counselling Tips, Education, Emotions, Family, Father, Learning, Mother, Parenting, Problem Solving, Raising Boys, Raising girls Gail Smith Behaviour, Children, Communication, Confrontation, Councelling Techniques, Counselling Tips, Education, Emotions, Family, Father, Learning, Mother, Parenting, Problem Solving, Raising Boys, Raising girls Gail Smith

Choose your battles. That’s the best win.

When raising a child, it is important you pick your battles wisely. Read some parenting tips you may find helpful in these situations.

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How to motivate your child to learn
Achievement, Behaviour, Children, Education, Family, Father, Learning, Mother, Parenting, Personality, Positive Behaviour, Problem Solving, Reading, school, teacher, Writing Gail Smith Achievement, Behaviour, Children, Education, Family, Father, Learning, Mother, Parenting, Personality, Positive Behaviour, Problem Solving, Reading, school, teacher, Writing Gail Smith

How to motivate your child to learn

Motivating your child to learn can be quite challenging, here’s a few parenting tips on how to keep your child motivated to learn inside and outside of the classroom.

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Teach our children to be courteous
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Teach our children to be courteous

There is a silent, steady power present in being courteous. You are stronger by nature of your courteous style. By treating someone with dignity no matter how different your thoughts are, there is little with which to argue. After all, they see how you accept them as legitimate. You accept their right to have a voice, which gives you a voice.

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Catching good behaviour isn’t that difficult
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Catching good behaviour isn’t that difficult

How often do we reward our children in spontaneous ways? Do we notice the various spontaneous occasions that can be rewarded and often through different ways?

Never underestimate the value of the positive words you use with your children. There is a clever way of getting even smarter with words and that is by picking up on spontaneous positive moments you notice.

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How to deal with giving consequences for problem behaviour
Behaviour, Mother, Father, Negotiation, Parenting, Positive Behaviour Gail Smith Behaviour, Mother, Father, Negotiation, Parenting, Positive Behaviour Gail Smith

How to deal with giving consequences for problem behaviour

I totally dislike the word Punishment. It has such dark and serious connotations and for a child it can be quite overwhelming when they hear there will be punishment for bad actions. How about saying there will be some consequences for poor behaviour. Here are some important aspects of dealing with problem behaviour that should be understood when managing negative behaviour with children.

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