How to make a child learn?

With the unwillingness of their children to learn and generally walkmany parents face school. Even those children who have always studied well, sometimes experience periods of apathy, laziness and disgust for learning. Therefore, the question of how to make a child learn, sooner or later, comes up before any parent. How to solve this problem? How to instill in the child the desire to learn? How to interest him? Is it necessary to force children to learn? Let's figure it out.

To force or interest?

First, you need to clearly delineate the concepts"Force" and "interest." If you force a child to learn, you will most likely run into open or veiled resistance on his part. After all, you will commit a very real act of violence. Violence over the individual, over her will, over her interests and the right to choose. Perhaps you will achieve some success with threats and punishments or even with the help of the notorious "gingerbread". But these successes will be either temporary, or entailing serious psychological problems in the future of your child.

It is quite another matter to be interested. That is, to generate cognitive interest. And here it is important not so much to arouse the desire to learn in school, how much the desire to learn new, expand your horizons. Your task in this case is to convince the child that learning something new is always interesting and useful. But first you need to find out the reasons why the child lost (or did not acquire) interest in learning.

Problems and solutions

It's hard to learn. This is the most common reason for the unwillingness of children to learn. Why can it be difficult? Fatigue - think about organizing your child's day and loads. Skipping the material - try to fill in the blanks together. Excess of information - try to teach your child to extract from this stream only the most important.
Misunderstanding - individual learning can solve this problem.
It's easy to learn. This is just the reason for the sudden reluctance to learn from children who were previously successful students. The material is absorbed by them easily and quickly, there is a need for new knowledge, and the school program does not satisfy these needs. There comes a moment of loss of interest in learning. This problem can be solved by writing the child to elective classes.
It's boring to learn. The problem of adolescence. To solve it it is possible only in that case if to connect hobbies of the teenager with process of training. In addition, this time is the period of the first choice, the time when you need to prioritize and choose what is really interesting. And there's just no such thing that there is nothing interesting among the school subjects.

Errors of parents

Do not allow the most common mistakes in your quest to get your child to learn.

Do not use physical punishment.
Do not call the child.
Do not praise too much.
Do not pay money for good grades.

Let us repeat once again that the most correct solutionproblems - develop a cognitive interest in the child. More on this, we already wrote in the article How to interest the child. Other useful recommendations on this topic can be found in our publications: