How to make your child focus more on studies?

Parents are often seen complaining that their children are not attentive and can’t focus on their studies. Over and above this, they also say that their child lack concentration skills and instantly shifts from one task to another. You have to understand that making a kid understand the importance of improved concentration skills is not easy but not impossible either.

So let’s try to understand how you can help your child focus on studies?

Tip 1: Know Your Child First

Knowing your child as they develop is the most vital thing as a parent. Parenting a child is an ever-changing and lifelong process. Child psychology depicts the developmental stages of a kid where we can observe all sorts of developments (As physical, emotional, cognitive, etc.) So as a parent or teacher, we must not consider a child, only a child but an individual and hence equally respect him/her. Excelling this further, the parent must be aware and conscious of every child’s needs and concerns (which might be personal) as per their developmental stages.

It is also critical to understand that an individual is a product of her/his environment. If two kids get the same culture, exposure and support both will tend to flourish in their future. To begin with, you must be aware of your child’s interests, skills, moods, abilities, the way a child learns, and her/his uniqueness. Some kids perform math sums successfully with music in the background, whereas some need pin-drop silence. As a parent, it is your prime motive to enable not only a positive environment but also a comfortable atmosphere for the child so that they can focus on studies and excel to their fullest.

Tip 2: Physiological And Biological

Our biology has an integral relationship with our psychology. For instance, our food habits, and our daily routine have a massive and direct impact on our emotions and personality. A nutrient or a well-balanced diet is inevitable for one to feel energetic, enthusiastic, healthy, and happy. A balanced diet is deeply connected to one’s metabolism and is also responsible for proper hormonal management. If a child is not having a properly balanced diet, then it has a negative impact, both physical as well as mentally. A balanced diet is a contributing factor in enhancing child concentration and focus on studies.

Secondly, it is good to have a sound sleep. Inadequate sleeping may lead to depression and can hamper one’s immune system. Adequate sleep is as significant as nutrient food and exercising. Adequate sleep contributes to improving a child’s academic productivity.

There are many more such factors like one’s daily routine, exercising, physical well-being, so on, and so forth, which are directly associated with our mental development. So, for a child, in a manner to be more focused and attentive, they need to take care of all those factors.

Tip 3: Personal And Societal Issues

The nature of the surroundings around which a child is brought up has not only a direct impact but can also sometimes impact their consciousness. The environment they are around shapes their mode of behaviour and thought process. Hence it becomes equally important that the atmosphere of a family and the society should be encouraging and nurturing. The atmosphere should be productive and justified to sharpen a child’s abilities.

Tip 4: Add Variations in your teaching methods

The method through which we are making an effort for child learning should be in accordance with the child’s needs. Not every child learns in the very same manner. You need to continuously innovate and add variations to your teaching methodologies. Your teaching practices should be interesting, engaging, and activity-based to improve grasping power.

Tip 5: Culture Provokes Learning

It’s an old and known fact that children copy their elders. They often pick up the good and the bad skills from their parents, extended family and friends. This is exactly why we need to be more attentive to our actions. “Action speaks louder than words.” So if you sit to read a novel or book regularly, then definitely this action will ignite a child to open a book and read and concentrate in a better way. Likewise, we need to build a culture in a way that a child can focus on their studies effortlessly.

Tip 6: Nature of Reading Material and Assignments

The reading material a teacher provides should not only be engaging but also age-appropriate. Reading material should be such that a child can connect the dots with the topic taught in the classroom. The nature of assignments and projects given to children in school should not be a copy-paste one. Nothing beats a project where they have to be creative and productive at the same time. Additionally, give achievable and short-timed projects to keep them engaged.

Summing up:

We need to understand that when a child fails to focus on studies, you cannot just blame the child. We, as parents or teachers, might also fail to make children learn. There would be certain factors or situations by which the desired outcome is not accomplished. At Harshad Valia International School, we boost your child with encouragement, confidence, and motivation– this is exactly how we handhold a distracted child. We resort to several concentration building remedies.

Lastly, we believe in having lively dialogues with all our students. It dosn’t end here, you as parents also need to show the same enthusiasm for optimal results.