How do you know what your kids will be good at?
All parents have moments that we try to imagine what our kid will be when he gets older. It's normal, we all want the best for our kids, and we all think our kids are super intelligent and will conquer the world. But my question is, How do you know what your kids will be good at?
As a mother, I think I know my kids, and by looking at their personalities, I think I know what their direction will be in the future. Well, this is mother intuition, but that is not a science. So, like always, I went to investigate, and this is what I discover.
Let your child discover her interests. Please pay attention to the activities she chooses. This free-time play can say a lot about where her gifts lie.
Give your child permission to make mistakes. If she has to do things perfectly, she'll never take the risks necessary to discover and develop a gift.
Share your work life. Expose your child to images of success by taking him to work. Let him see you engaged in meaningful activities and allow him to become involved.
Keep your passion for learning alive. Your example will influence your child.
Play games together as a family. Playing games with your family can help you become a trusted figure to your child. Decreased Behavioral Problems: To summarize the above, when you share a strong emotional bond with your child, establish trust, and improve communication within your family, you are likely to see an improvement in your child's behavior
Have regular family time for reading, listening to music, talking. Spending time with your kid while fully relaxed helps or child development and skills. Books spark your child's imagination and stimulate curiosity. Help develop your child's brain, ability to focus, concentration, social skills, and communication skills. Music exposes the child to challenges and multi-sensory experiences, which enhance learning abilities and encourage cognitive development. Listening to other people speaking enables children to develop vocabulary, comprehension, and language skills. These vital communication skills are the building bricks of literacy and learning.
Use humor, jokes, silly stories to encourage creativity. If we look at what humor brings to our lives, this will make sense. Humor encourages creative risk-taking, develops divergent thinking, and boosts our creativity since you need to push your creativity every day to keep your mood on point.
Share your successes as a family. Talk about good things that happened during the day to enhance self-esteem. By showing your kids what you achieved due to your effort and dedication, you pass a message to them on how hard work pays off.
Listen to your child. The things he cares about most may provide clues to his unique talents. Listening to your child helps them show more interest in school. A child is more likely to be engaged at school if they have a parent sit down and listen to them at home.
Visit new places as a family. From the beginning of a journey to long after arriving home, traveling with family can be one of the most rewarding adventures you can have together. While travel enables families to form a stronger bond, children also benefit from new experiences, and adults gain a greater appreciation for what's around them.
Avoid comparing your child to others. Allow him to look back and compare to himself before. By continually comparing our kid with different kids, we increment his nervousness and feelings of anxiety. Children want to please their parents, and not being able to do so can make them anxious. ... It may foster resentment towards their parents, siblings, or other children that they are being compared to.
These are a few points that we, as parents, can do to help our kids discover their path. And don't forget, guide him to find happiness, if he realizes what he loves, he will be one happy grownup.
As a mother, I truly believe in my intuition, and I believe I know what my kids want to be. I can be completely wrong after, but I will tell you what I think.
My son will follow a mental journey, like computers, science, building games. My daughter will follow the world of arts, like acting, dancing, or painting. In a few years, let's talk about this and come back to this post to see if I was right! :)
Lots of love