How do you do that?
You have to formulate confidence strategies.
Because as your child becomes more confident, they will learn better. Once high levels of confidence have been achieved, reading becomes easy and fun. Even if there are struggles. That’s why the praise exercise I gave you was designed to help with confidence. Remember that one? The proper praise exercise. That's a good starting point. Of course, there are many more strategies you can use to quickly build confidence.
Another strategy for building confidence is building up the micro-skills. When these micro-skills gain strength, all learning becomes easy and fun. Like it should be. At Learning Success we also use a principle called Kaizen. What this means is that we aim for tiny changes. Breaking things down into their smallest components.
Why does this work?
The brain resists change. So by making change very small, we eliminate resistance. You can create changes that are so small that they do not trigger resistance. The Learning Success System is full of lessons that are small enough to ensure success. Ensuring success is an important technique in confidence building. When teaching we don’t want successes all the time but we do want them most of the time.
That proper praise exercise was also designed to help your child realize that not getting something correct is not always the most important thing. Effort is. So, with that in mind. We create an environment where 90% of the time there is a win. The other 10% they will learn to just keep trying until there is a win.
There is some neuroscience magic behind small wins. By having a lot of small successes we wire the brain for success. Each small success causes an endorphin release. Eventually, a child learns to desire these endorphin releases. Even though these successes are tiny, they add up quickly. This moves a child forward and creates more desire to move forward.
Julie was absolutely thrilled when she saw this work in action:
Can you imagine how happy Julie was when she first saw her daughter do her homework on her own?
Here's another trick to control those emotions (amygdala). We can use the body. You can use the body for emotional control and generate positive emotions. This is one of the most exciting breakthroughs in neuroscience. You can one way of doing that here.
Let's get back to those important micro-skills. Micro-skill exercises are actually fun. They are like games. And this is one of the methods for transforming your child into an eager learner. Exercises that are more like games than school work.
Work Smarter
If there’s already resistance to school work then working harder at school work won’t help. It will only make things worse. Instead, build up the skills in a non-academic fun way. As confidence builds, you can tackle bigger harder things. Like academics.
Learning Success members are happy to find that their children actually enjoy doing the Learning Success System. That's a welcome change. Here are some screenshots taken from our member's area. These are from parents going through the Learning Success System and realizing how they can turn their children around from resistance to enjoyment. Some of these parents started out with their children throwing screaming tantrums when homework was even mentioned. They’ve come a long way.