Combining Learning with Playing
Everybody wants their children to be brought up well educated to establish not only a great vocation, but also to bequeath them a great understanding of how the world works to hand them decent life skills. However, there appears to be this chronic struggle of dividing your children from their toys or the gogglebox in order to get them to get on with their homework. In schools it would appear that the enjoyment is withdrawn from learning, so it’s no surprise kids spend their time daydreaming in school. It doesn’t have to be that way though. Rather than this false dichotomy of playing and learning, it’s better to combine playing and studying and make learning fun again.
Children will study much more when learning is simply enjoyable, OR if they determine a practical function as to why they’re learning a particular lesson. The former is often a lot easier than the latter.
For instance: hand the children 26 blocks, representing 26 characters from the alphabet. Now tell them to make a pillar from the building blocks that spells out a particular word. So they’re enjoying themselves and attempting to make building block columns not collapse while learning to spell.
These days, it’s now widely understood that once you develop the groundwork for a particular subject (e.g. geography), children are more likely to become interested in it later on in life. If you just sit them down, have them face a chalkboard, and ask them to listen to the teacher waffling on, you’re more likely to encourage daydreaming than learning.
What sort of playthings should you buy your youngsters? These days there’s a large array of toys. Always take heed that kids enjoy playing with practically anything, even an empty box! From alphabet blocks for kids to party games for children, so long as the focus is on studying and helping your kids to become inquisitive (which promotes self-learning).
