Tuesday, January 31, 2012

How to handle difficult children


 
Every child is unique and has different needs.Some children are easy to handle and some are difficult to handle.Different techniques need to be implemented in order to handle difficult children.Parents play an important role in handling such children. Every child has a set of expectations from their parents. Parents require a lot of concentration for fulfilling the child’s expectations.

Few steps that could be helpful for parents in order to  handle difficult children are listed below:

 Awareness
Parents should be aware of their child’s behavior. They should know what are their child’s likes and dislikes.  What activities he enjoys doing? Parents should encourage him to do such activities more as compared to other ones.
Spending time together is also an important factor in this situation. Both mother and father must try to spend at least a fixed number of hours with the child, for example- They must have breakfast and dinner together. If possible accompany the child to  picnics or outings.This enables maximum chances of interaction.

Choices                           
Parents need to give choices to difficult children, for example- what would he like to have for breakfast? Bread or milk; what would he like to play? Online kids games or outdoor games. Choices matter a lot while handling difficult children as it provides flexibility to them. A difficult child doesn’t like forced decisions. So the parents should be careful about all this. Children do not like decisions imposed on them and it may make them angry. Such scenarios may worsen the situation.

Voice tone
The voice tone acts as a catalyst while making a child understand something.Sometimes the voice tone may also have negative effects. So the tone should be moderate so that the child may not interpret anything in a negative manner.

Set boundaries and rules
Set boundaries and rules for the children and follow them everywhere. The rules shouldn’t be confined to home, rather should be followed outside as well.

The above mentioned ways are only a few. But there are many different ways of handling difficult children depending on their personality and requirements.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012






Online Education: An important factor for child’s mental 

development.


Online Education is very popular amongst children now days. It can be rated as an effective way of educating the children. When it comes to online Education, the aim behind this is making learning easy and effective for the children. Online Education basically educates children by using the play way methods. Everything has positive and negative effects. Both should be kept in mind. Following are few positive and negative points related to online Education.

Age specified: Any online educating websites offer games, lesson plans, worksheets etc designed, considering a particular age requirement. For example whatever a preschooler finds attractive may not be attractive for a kindergartner. So the curriculum to be taught is designed accordingly in order to make it interesting for children.

Motivation: The best way of motivating a child is to make learning fun. And children like colorful and beautiful images, especially the young ones. Another good way of motivating them to learn is the use of Online Learning Games. No doubt every age group of children loves playing games. Educational sites offer a variety of Educational games. So this can drive children to learn by playing.

Choice: Children are offered a lot of options in terms of selecting a particular section of their interest. They can choose whichever game they like to play with options to choose various levels. Online games come with an option to choose the levels of difficulties for example- very easy, easy, difficult. Similarly they can choose the worksheet levels which are given at the end of each lesson plan.

Skills development: Children develop various skills when they opt for online Education. So whenever a child opts for online Education it further helps in developing the eye-hand coordination. For example- If children use a computer then they have to click the mouse looking at the screen. This also enables the development of the fine muscles. And when they play Kids games or solve the worksheets they develop mental abilities. Some interactive lesson plans also enhance a child’s logical reasoning.

A major point to be kept in mind is that the children should not sit in front of the computer for long durations. It may affect their eyesight. In other words few things should be taken care of while going ahead with online eduction.