Thursday, March 24, 2011

Use a certificate of completion to reward and inspire your children!

When children in elementary school, it is important to let them know that their efforts and achievements are noticed. When they just learn to read and write, it is easy for them to become discouraged. As their classmates seem to catch on quicker at the base of ABC, writing, printing or arithmetic, this can be a misplaced sense of less-favoured and a negative attitude towards learning that them during their school years follows.

As a parent, you can avoid this negative development by your own awards to applaud your child's achievements, in the form of a certificate of completion pouring. If your children are learning quickly, making them a certificate of completion is still a great idea, because you are nurturing ongoing enthusiasm for their efforts.

Perhaps you remember the first time you were confronted with learning your ABC. The letters don't make much sense, right? It's confusing for children, trying to understand what the symbols mean and why they need to know them. Sure, they have seen them in books, but even the concept of reading can be difficult to connect with how these letters fit into the whole scheme of things. It is only through much iteration that the children eventually reach this milestone. Granting your child a certificate of completion, with the date, their name and what they have learned, with a shiny gold foil star in the corner, gives them a sense of pride that all the work worthwhile.

A three ring binder can you keep their certificates. Especially during the early school years, these certificates of achievement. Think of the many occasions that you mark with such rewards can. Children enjoy having tangible proof of what they have achieved. When your child is frustrated with his school work feels, take that binder from the shelf and sheet by each certificate of completion, noting the dates as well. "Remember how difficult it was to the ABC 's? But you did it! " He will remember and this serves to him, to know that he definitely can do also encourage this current work.

Learn how to tell time is difficult for most kids, probably because the conceptual in nature, is linked to the idea of that there are 24 hours in a day, with only 12 markers on the clock. Another problem is that they have struggled to stand out from the big hand from the small. When your child learning to tell time, this is definitely an opportunity for a certificate of completion!

Read, print, learning from script writing and all steps of the arithmetic-add, subtract, multiply, and divide-all great performances. You can also give them certificates for non-academic achievements, such as sports, good deeds and development results, like learning to share, their room Cleaning every week or controlling their external in a difficult situation.

By the time your child reaches 6, he will have quite a collection of certificates of achievement and a good sense of how persistence pays in learning!

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