How To Encourage Your Children to Learn at Home
When you have a child, you’ll know that learning doesn’t just end when the school bell rings. Home is one of the best ways you can help them to further their education, nurturing their curiosity, enhancing their creativity and ensuring they have a lifelong love of learning. After all, if they think it’s just about school, which they might not enjoy, it could tarnish how they feel about new knowledge and skills. Whether your child is studying for exams, exploring new hobbies, or you want to help them with important skills like short vowel words or certain times tables, there are plenty of ways to make learning fun and natural. Here are a few ways you can encourage your children to learn more at home without it feeling like work.
Create a dedicated learning space at home
When you have a dedicated learning space for your child, it helps them to focus. Set up a small desk or quiet space where they can lay out their things and not get distracted. Have plenty of storage, good lighting and try to make it their own special space that they can enjoy. It doesn’t need to be anything fancy, just as long as it’s theirs.
Make learning part of your everyday life
Turn everyday moments into mini lessons. Cooking becomes a maths exercise when measuring ingredients, gardening introduces biology and patience (which is helpful for all walks of life), and reading recipes or maps improves comprehension and concentration skills. Children learn best when they can see the purpose behind what they’re doing, and implementing it in everyday life is a really good way to stop it from feeling like a chore and learning unintentionally.
Make it fun
One of the simplest ways to encourage your children to learn at home is to make the learning fun. Instead of watching a video on understanding your times table, you can make a game out of it. A lot of schools will play maths bingo, which is often popular. Or you could play catch and then ask the multiples on the spot. The more playful it feels, the more likely it is that they will stay engaged and remember. When having a movie night as a family, you could try and find a way to make it educational at the same time.
These are just a few top tips that can help you to encourage your child to learn more at home and prepare as much as possible for the future. From making sure it’s fun for them, to creating a dedicated working space, and doing a little bit every day, you’ll find it soon makes a real difference.
What are some top tips you have for encouraging your children to learn at home? Which of the above tips have you tried before and had success with? Is there something missing in our guide that you think we should be adding? Let us know in the comments below, we’d love to hear from you.
