Step Out of the Boat If You Want to Walk on Water

We as parents have to understand that there is a difference between teaching basic learning skills like reading, writing and arithmetic and the acquirement of knowledge in itself.

During your children’s education there must be a healthy balance between the discipline and correction of the “how,” and the freedom and passion of the “what.”

How they learn:

Children must be taught how to learn by (more…)

In a greater or lesser degree every parent is confronted with bad attitudes toward learning. Laziness and lack of motivation are common concerns we have with our beloved offspring. Most of us recur to controlling, imposing, and a variety of disciplinary formulas based on punishment and rewards.

Nevertheless, none of these methods reach the heart of the child. They can be used to force the child to comply, but they will never motivate him or her to learn with passion.

So how can we possibly make them learn all they need to learn for life? (more…)

Since my childhood days I can remember that books have always played an important role in my life.

Even now, as I think of my father, I view him sitting in his favorite armchair, totally absorbed by some book he was reading.

Yes, I can definitely say that books influenced my life in a significant way.

Cradles of Eminence studied common factors in the childhoods of 400 eminent men and women and concluded:

“A rule of thumb for predicting success is to know the number of books in the home”

They were all brought up in a print rich environment.

Without a doubt, reading is a life-changing habit.

But not all books are good. There is (more…)