Motivate your Children

 Motivating children is a amazing lesson I learned this course.  Motivation is a drive, it's what keeps kids moving and going foward.  From this class I learned about how to properly inspire children and keep them on track.  It almost felt like a trial and error situation with teaching kids motivation.  If you try too hard it can result in rebellion anmd If you try too little they seem to let go and not care.

So what can we do??

So what exactly gives kids the drive to do things? Is it rewards or forcing them?  It can be boiled down to a simple conclusion that you need to teach your kids the satisfaction of them doing good in a task or whatver it may be.  The more kids feel good about an assiagment the more they are going to enjoy it.




I'm going to tell you a secret to a question lots of parents have, and the answer is no, bribes don't work.  

It can be really challenging figuring out how to get your child to do something you want, but as soon as you introduce bribery it is going to be a bumpy road for you.  In the article What's the Problem With Bribes by Dr. Dennis Steve, it states, "The problem comes when parents use rewards or punishments that 

are neither authentic nor logical.  They are arbitrary and have no connection to the situation. Too often

parents have a standard arbitrary consequence regardless of the situation. They have one tool in their

parenting toolbox. 

Consumer thinking materialism runs deep in our culture. When considering rewards, we often think of "things"-treats, gifts, money and other things . When things are prommited as reward, children learn to value things over more important- but less tangible rewards. 

Consider rewarding children with your time, activities or other opportunities. I love this

because when I was younger I remember remembering thr rewards that included 

spending with my parents at dinner or different places and those are the real rewards that I will

alsways remember.

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