05/10/2014
Part 2:My child is getting poor grades in school
1. Social emotional – Here we are talking about factors relating to the family. Yes I said it family and this included you the parent. What you need to appreciate is that you have a very big impact on your child’s academic performance. Over the years, we have seen children who’s grades are affected by;
1. Divorced / separated couples
2. Couples that are constantly quarreling or fighting
3. Well meaning parents who work so hard to provide for their children and in so doing lack the time to provide their child with emotional support.
4. Parents who drink a too much
5. Single parents
6. Financial status of the family – this works both ways
If this is the case, then trust me no amount of extra lessons is going to yield any results. In this case we encourage parents to take a critical look at themselves and make a conscious decision to make changes. We encourage you to seek professional help if need be to work on yourself first. We in this case can offer emotional coaching to your child. This helps them deal with the deep issues that they are dealing with. Once your child I able to reconcile themselves with these circumstances, then they are able to tackle school with ease. We have seen this over and over again.
1. Learning Pace – Different children process information at different speeds. There are some children who may be slow learners and need more time and repetition in order to understand and remember concepts. If this is the case then EXTRA LESSONS is one of the things that you may consider. This will certainly give you some results. You may also introduce Brain gym
2. Learning techniques and abilities – Because our education system does not provide for whole brain leaning i.e. learning using both hemispheres of the brain i.e. right and left hemisphere, our children tend to rely more on the left brain and are not able to take advantage to the benefit of the right brain in learning. In other countries, teachers have started employing right brain teaching techniques and methodologies which makes learning much more fun and easy.
3. These are sessions that will equip your child with the following methodology that will instantly boost their academic performance in all subjects
1. Visualization
2. Image streaming
3. Relaxation
4. Use of their multiple intelligences to make learning easier
5. Photographic memory
6. N euro Linguistic programming
7. You will notice that we have not mentioned anything to do with Peer Pressure / Bad Company. This is because in relation to school work, your child will only yield to peer pressure of they do not have a solid “Grades” foundation. When you sort out these 4 issues above, then your child is not likely to be swayed by others at least ins as far as academics is concerned. You see when your child is not performing well and you are providing the wrong solution to the problem, then they look for another avenue to express their frustrations and what better avenue than to feel significant in bad company.
