Parents sometimes confuse two important issues. They care about their students getting the appropriate education, and so they prioritize what they consider the right subjects taught in the right ways through the right programs.
Meanwhile the child is resisting. That resistance is expressed as a global unhappiness with the subject or any effort required to address the subject. To create a desire to learn, the child must find the work personally meaningful and useful in some way.
In today’s podcast episode, let’s talk about how you can connect learning to something in the child’s current life.
Show Notes
Two ways parents respond:
- One kind of parent doubles down and requires the child to complete the work despite the whining, complaining, and poor performance.
- The other kind of parent tries to accommodate the resistance by making the task easier or letting it go for a period until the subject never gets done.
The first kind of parent doesn’t know how to get the child to be happy.
The second kind of parent doesn’t know how to ensure the child makes progress in learning.
Let’s look at a third way that will address both parents.
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