Education plays a very important role in our lives. As what everbody says, "
Education is the key to success". This quote is purely true and tested! Having the right education is everyone's right, it is a fundamental human right.
Education starts at home. Parents are our first teacher. It tackles a big resonsibility for parents
to educate a child at an early age. Here are some
tips to educate a child at an early age:
- Make Your Child A Good Listener - Before you give the instruction or talk to your child, it is best to reduce the distraction from her. Before you talk to her, you can call her name to get her attention. Only begin to talk when she has eye contact with you.
- Develop your child's basic knowledge and expression skills- You can help your child learning colors, numbers, concept of sizes, concept of space and place through games, actions or talking.
- Use blocks to teach your child to learn colors - Get her to speak out the colors of different blocks. Or, find the block with the specified color.
- Establish the foundation on numbering - You can get her to give you one object. When she understand the concept of 'one', you can continue to get her to give you more things.
- Teach your child the concept of size - You can let your child use the crayon to draw on the paper with different length of lines or different size of circles. Or you can use the
- clay to make different sizes of balls.
- Teach your child the concept of space - To teach the concept of space, you can design some activities to be participated by her. For example, prepare a big box, let your child stand inside and outside the box or walk around the box.
- Develop your child's memory skills - You can improve your child's memory skills by teaching your child about a rhythm, a short poem or a song. After repeating few times, you skip the last word without saying it out. Encourage your child to speak out that missing word. Slowing increase the number of skipped words.
- Reinforce your child's newly learned words and concept - When your child just learn a new concept or word from the story, you can reinforce using natural way.
Education leads us to succeed in all of our goals and molds us to become a better person. Always remember: "
Knowledge is power" ;-)