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Lets help our children learn to read

Reading is one of the basic building blocks for children. Children who become good readers when they are young are more likely to become better learners throughout their school years and beyond. 

The basic skills necessary for your child to become a good reader are acquired before your child ever starts school.  Since parents are their child’s first teacher, you can help teach reading skill  early in their life. But remember not to push too hard.

 Learning how to read doesn't happen quickly it takes years. Be patient it is very important that you make learning how to read fun not work. Help your toddler and preschool aged child develop strong language skills, children start on the road to becoming readers as infants listening to your voice. 

This is how they first learn about language. Language skills provide the foundation for learning how to reading. The first step in helping your child to become a good reader is to focus on verbal language stimulation.

 • Talk to child a lot, children learn words more easily and build their vocabulary when they hear them often

 • Teach child new words,help child learn that different words start with the same sounds

 • Tell stories, children love it when you make up stories that involve them

 “Once upon a time, there was a little boy named ___. One day he went to …” As your child gets older the can help you build stories. Start a story and then ask your child what comes next.

 This kind of dialogue  encourages creative thinking. Example: “There was a cat walking along the road…” Ask your child “What happens next?”

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We should support girls’ education

For many girls’ going to school remain as a dream, many of them dream about it but were not able to attain that dream, they were surrounded by different obstacles in a very childhood age. Many parents back in the days didn't put much emphasize  on sending their girls’ to school they saw them as mothers, wives but they refuse to see them as educated women.

At very tender age girls’ are trained to look after the house, to look after their young sisters and brothers, to look after themselves but not to educate themselves. Education was treated as privilege to girls rather than critical essential right to every child.

The way things are changing we see different women doing so many things in our society and in the world in general our mentality about girls’ education start changing to the positive way. Most of the parents now see girls’ education as important as boys’ education; they use the same effort in sending boys’ to school for girls’.

I am not saying girls’ need to be PhD holders but rather they should have enough education to be able to stand, express themselves, make decision as girl, lady, woman, mother and grandmother and their voices should be heard.

Girls' with education will be able to form next generation women leaders, likely to defend themselves when their basic rights are compromises or violated.

We parent should not limit our children ability by not send them to school but rather we should give them a lot of opportunity so they won’t be limited by circumstance when their making choices.

****If we educate a boy we educate one person if we educate the girl we educate the society and the whole nation****

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Let kids play

Children are learning all the time. Play stimulates his brain and helps them start making sense of the world. Play also helps children build confidence, feel loved and develop communication, social and physical skills.

Also playing provided children with something children don’t get enough of anymore, having fun is the best kind exercise and  activities that get children body moving. Its good if children meet others children for a playdate social play are great way for your child to make first friends.

 But don't expect sharing and taking turns just yet children believe they're the centre of the world and that everything belongs to them. Keep a ‘busy box’ of useful things to encourage creative play. Things like colored paper, empty food boxes, plastic cups, and ribbons anything that’s safe will let your child’s imagination going.

 Read books, sing songs or tell stories together. These activities build children talking and listening skills, as well as sparking their imagination and helping his memory. This is an important period of emotional development for your child. They are going through lots of feelings themselves, while also learning about other people’s feelings. 

Temper tantrums are normal, because children often don't have the words to express frustration, anger, embarrassment and other big emotions for example, guilt and shame. Your support helps your child’s development a lot. 

Supporting and encouraging children efforts builds confidence and encourages them to keep trying. Creative play is very important for child’s development. You can encourage your child by making lots of time for free flowing creative activities.

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Water for Kids

Children need plenty of water to stay hydrated and healthy ,water also its necessary to keep their body working properly.Its challenge to get children to drink enough water because most children prefer the sweet taste of juice, chocolate milk or soda.

We should teach our children why water is important this can motivate them to drink more water, sometimes we need to go extra mile to make them drink water by telling them they will be healthier and feel better.

Also we must make sure to have children take along a bottle of water with them when they’re going to school; this will help to reduce the risk of children to drink unclean water and will encourage them to drink water whenever they are thirsty.

In the process of making children drinking water we can start by buying their favorite bottle of water with cool designs, they will definitely be more absorbed with water if drinking from their favorite bottle.

Another idea is to purchase a special cup or glass that children will be used only for water, water from a brightly colored picture will attract young ones to drink water.

Even though a glass of water in good and keep children adequately hydrated also we can give children fruits which has water for them to consume such as water melon, oranges and strawberries.

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Parents back to school again

When it comes to children homework parents feel like they are back to school again, Sometime its difficult since after you had a long day by the time you get home all you want is to rest and now we a facing with another thing which also need you full attention that is our children homework.

Parents can play a crucial role in helping children handle these challenges and succeed in school by lending a little help, support, and guidance, and by knowing what problems demand their involvement and which ones require them to hang back. 

Make sure your children have a quiet, distraction free place to study. The space should be stocked with paper, pencils, a calculator, dictionary and any other necessary supplies. It should be away from distractions like TVs, ringing phones, and video games. 

Children may prefer to retreat to a private space to work rather than study surrounded by parents and siblings. Grant that independence, but check in from time to time to make sure that they haven't gotten distracted. When it comes to homework, be there to offer support and guidance, answer questions, help interpret assignment instructions, and review the completed work.

 But resist the urge to provide the right answers or complete assignments. Setting a regular time and place each day for homework to be done. And make it clear that there's no TV, video game playing until homework is done and checked.No one is born with great organisational skills they've learned and practiced over time. 

If children are frazzled by problems he's been trying to solve for hours, for instance, suggest the take a break. A fresh mind may be all the needed, but when it's time to return to homework, ask how you can help. 

Encourage our children to ask for help, if needed, but remember that in school students are rewarded for knowing the right answers and no one likes to stand out by saying that they don't have them.

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