Learning better

In today's world, kids are super smart and very quick to learn. I'm guessing one of the contributing factor is the method of teaching.

Back in the days, you had slates and pencils, then we moved to having white boards and markers. It was all writing, craming with crude ways of doing calculations.

Gradually, tv became introduced, right now, almost every child has a kiddie's tablet with fun children videos to help them remember and sing along.

Games have been incorporated as teaching method for the kids. Teachers have become very creative to engage the minds of children as against the hard ways of yesterday.

You go to school and find kids engaged in painting, wrestling, obstacle climbing, rubics, dancing, skill acquisition...

The goal has shifted today from straight jacket pre-programmed teachings to stimulating the minds and tapping into the brain of kids to discover what they love and can excel in doing. This way, the kids learn faster and rarely forget.

I was worried my kids weren't very good at identifying colours so one day,the idea popped into my mind to engage the kids. So I decided to begin using everything to help them. We composed a song between us, then we began identifying the colours of everything we came across, with gifts to be won whenever they got it right. In a matter of weeks the kids have began identifying colours for themselves without stress.

For today's kids, teach them in love, do not be overly harsh or quick to spank or beat them befriend them and finally, be be patient. 

You'd be shocked at the outcome.