Brave Learning: Tips for Enticing Your Children to Write
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Tips for Enticing Your Children to Write
You can change how your kids feel about writing right now!
Try one of these today.
Create a treasure hunt—that rhymes! Send your kids hunting for some treat with clues you design. Then later, ask them to make one for you (on your birthday!).
Put Sticky Notes all over the bedroom door of your child. Fill them with jokes, silly word pairs, or aphorisms. Jot down comments about your child’s strengths, brief memories of their exploits, hints about the fun you will have during winter break, questions of the universe (“Who am I and why am I here?”, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”)… You decide. This is a stealth operation to be performed after your child is asleep. In the morning, your child will discover the door of notes! Leave a stack of sticky notes and a pen nearby. See if the child reciprocates. Some will.
Use lipstick to leave love notes on the bathroom mirror for your kids. [Keep reading]
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