Helping Kids Study Motivation
Struggling with homework and study motivation? Noticing your child is giving up in their work?
These are the strategies we teach to students and parents to help them succeed.
Motivational Techniques For Children
In this article, I want to share some motivational techniques for children to help you support your child through exams as well as provide them with study inspiration that will see them through to success. This is a compilation of my experience from many years of working as a professional life coach for kids.
Goal Setting: How Bad Goal Setting Defines The Road To Failing
One question comes up the most during parenting classes, “Why is goal setting so important when we talk with our children?” Read this real life conversation:
Using Feedback To Boost Children Motivation
Here is what my experience working as a life coach for kids tells me to do: Understand, empowering feedback, re-define her goals, focus on the learning
A Good Homework Routine – Stage 4 and 5
After a few weeks of coaching kids through homework routine, you will notice the effect. They’ll take on the routine happily and love the play time they have. You will be calmer and have time for other things as well.
A Good Homework Routine – Stage 3: Implement Without Exception
Ok, so you had the talk. They made a fuzz about it and you carried it on. The first few days were a bit difficult, they didn’t finish. Perhaps, you might be thinking they’ll never do it. So, you start giving them more time, sitting down with them, answering questions as and when they want…. you see where I am getting to. This is a popular encounter I get during my parent coaching classes
A Good Homework Routine – Stage 2: Defining The Rules In A Mature Way
It is likely that, you, like me, have been in a very different homework routine for a few years. Any significant change will challenge your children’s sense of safety. It might even challenge their perception of how much you care for them. It will definitively challenge their desire to have you near by every time they ask or look around. In my years of coaching kids, the last concern is the one that comes up the most in parenting classes.
A Good Homework Routine – Stage 1: What Are The Goals?
This is one of the biggest misconceptions I have come across throughout my career as a child life coach. Because the goals are not properly set, it becomes difficult even for parents with good parenting skills to determine where their assistance should start and where they should stop. Here are the goals that should guide every homework routine.
A Good Homework Routine – Introduction
As a life coach for children, I talk with many children, parents and teachers every week. My observation is that the single biggest cause of disruption at home is the homework routine.