Can all children learn fast?
Yes, every normal child can learn fast and become a brilliant person as every normal child has a perfect brain.
Your child is in possession of a perfect brain if he has learned to walk, talk and play. Walking, talking and playing skills are so complex that only children with perfect brains can learn them. You know that children whose brain is not normal need special training to learn such skills.
The most important secret behind fast learning
Remember how your child learned to walk, talk, and play.
His efforts to walk and talk were praised, applauded, kissed, stroked, encouraged, and vividly demonstrated to the child how to do these activities better. When the child faltered and fell or when the child uttered nonsense words, you did not criticize him. Instead, you enjoyed those mistakes and laughed with your son. You too could have acted like your son!
In short, they made learning a playful activity with lots of love!
This is the biggest secret that can accelerate your children’s learning and turn them into brilliant people. Just use your creative thinking and make them love what they have to learn.
If you provide a loving atmosphere when your child is trying to read or write, your child will be able to master those skills faster and better.
However, except in a few cases, this does not happen. Both parents and teachers become impatient and begin to criticize and even punish children when they make mistakes. This creates confusion, fear, hatred and distancing in children towards learning.
Use the PCP technique to bring out the temper in your child.
Children learn everything by trial and error. This includes making a lot of mistakes. Learning can be accelerated by ignoring mistakes and praising correct actions.
But some bugs need to be criticized and fixed. This can be done using a PCP sandwich which stands for Praise-Critic-Praise.
Criticism brings better results if it is used after praising some good qualities. This means that you have to find something good in every mistake. Let me give an example of the use of PCP.
Your child has spelled the word ENGLISH as ENGLISH.
Now, instead of yelling at your child, you can say, “Okay, you got 9 out of 10, since you spelled six letters out of seven correctly! (Praise).
But if you had written ‘I’ instead of ‘E’, you could have gotten 10 out of 10. Practice writing the correct spelling 4 or 5 times, you will be able to write this word correctly in the future.” (Critical).
Now when your child spells the word 4-5 times correctly, praise him again. “Very good, you have learned the correct spelling.”
However, what if in the future your child spells the same word incorrectly? Use the same technique.
Say: “Last time you had written so well.” (Praise.)
“But now you only scored 9 again!” (Criticism). Then ask your child to write that word again 4-5 times and remember to praise him after he finishes the task.
You can also motivate your children to perform better by offering them simple rewards after every small improvement. Aiming for a small improvement is much better than imposing a big improvement goal on your children that may turn out to be a huge failure.
You can solve other problems for your son or daughter using similar strategies.
Think about this great phrase…
“A child’s education must begin at least a hundred years before he is born.”
–Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
First of all, parents need to develop good habits and demonstrate them to their children. Children do not do what they are told, they do what parents do. Then start using the PCP technique to motivate kids to master good habits, learn useful skills, and get better grades.
Praise more and criticize less or even better, ignore mistakes and praise whatever small improvement your child has made in each situation. In a short time you will see positive changes in your child’s progress.
As a bonus, you will have a loving relationship with your children.