Good Examples of Parenting Styles Improve Your Child's Emotions So Learning Improves Too

In "Why is Education important," we learned that negative
experiences, like too much rote memory work, interfere
with learning. This is true because each time your child
learns something, an emotion is associated with
that learning.

Emotions and feelings mediate or influence all learning.
Therefore, positive emotions, like happiness, make learning
easier, and negative emotions, like sadness, make learning
more difficult.

Good examples of parenting styles tend to engender positive
emotions that aid learning. You already knew that because
you, probably, recall how difficult it was to learn
something when you hated it or felt frightened by it, like
just before a major test.

Boredom results when negative emotions are associated with
learning. Boredom is probably the single most important
reason normal children fail in school. This is, also, why
parenting is so vital to learning. Positive examples of
parenting styles create positive emotions and feelings that
help improve learning and prevent boredom.

For more examples of parenting styles, click here.

Keeping in mind the relationship between good examples of
parenting styles and learning, encourage your child to
learn by praising what he does right and praising him when
he tries. Persistence is one of the most important factors
related to successful learning. Good examples of parenting
styles encourage persistence.

Parents who remember the relationship between emotions and
learning, provide positive opportunities for their child to
learn at home. Make learning fun by, for example, doing
daily crossword puzzles to improve vocabulary and reading
interesting stories. Then don't forget to praise your
child to increase those positive emotions which facilitate
learning. Remember, success in school is highly correlated
to verbal ability as exemplified in vocabulary and reading.

When you're out and about keep your child on her learning
toes by, for example, asking her to check the air in your
tires instead of sitting idly bored in the car.

Enroll your child in preschool so he doesn't fall behind
after he commences elementary school. Make it the best
preschool possible.

Consider enrolling your child in the elementary or high
school with the greatest variety of learning activities and
enrichment programs to increase, not only her exposure to
different learning experiences, but in the hopes she may
discover her life's bliss in one of these activities.

Good examples of parenting styles plan ahead with the
child's educational future in mind.

If you can't afford such an enriched school program, then
model positive thinking by showing your child how lemons
can be made into lemonade. Increase your child's hopes,
dreams, and imagination through reading about interesting
or exciting pursuits and famous people.

Parents, by necessity, must be practical. Children,
however, are not bound by practicality, nor should they
be. Hence, don't be afraid to encourage your child's
hopes, dreams, creativity and imagination. These mind
activities create positive emotions and learning. Many
people have attained greatness who when young were
sustained by only their hopes and dreams.

Thus, good examples of parenting styles, not only create
positive emotions that enhance learning, but encourage
their children's hopes, dreams, creativity and
imagination.

Create interest in learning by showing interest in your
child's education. Ask him questions about his school day.
This can improve his emotions and learning. When your
child returns from school be sure to find out what happened
that day, how he did, and how he feels about what he did.
Be specific. What interested him most in math? What grade
did he get on his math homework assignment? Was he happy
with that grade? Could he have done better? If not, why
not? Tell him what you think. Don't forget appropriate
praise. What can be done to improve his school experience?

Hence, good examples of parenting styles encourage learning
by expressing interest in their child's education.

Look at your child and show him you're excited about what
he's learning. From another perspective, why should he be
excited about learning if you're not? Remember, most the
time, your child takes his lead from you!

Good examples of parenting styles are those that, not only
express interest in their child's learning, but are
genuinely interested in learning themselves.

Parents can contribute to positive emotions and learning by
supporting their child with regular, cooperative parent and
teacher communication. Never underestimate the importance
of your child's teacher. You can encourage your child's
school to make learning a positive emotional experience.
You can, also, get help for her from the teacher to assure
that she experiences education positively.

Therefore, good examples of parenting styles are those that
insure their child's school success by keeping in contact
with their child's teacher.

Parenting means regularly monitoring your child to see that
he is doing what he's supposed to be doing and benefiting
from it. A parent unwilling to monitor his or her child is
no parent at all.

When a problem occurs, good examples of parenting styles
make the problem the problem and not the child. If Johnny
is getting poor grades. He is not the problem. He still
is a good kid and accepted by his parents. A potential
plan is developed to solve the grade problem.

Some ways to improve emotions and learning at school that
good examples of parenting styles follow are:

1. Make it a point to have regular parent and teacher
   communication. Make sure your child is enjoying school.
   
   
2. Enroll your child in after school homework programs
   where he can get help with his homework. Then drop in
   occasionally and see if he is cooperating with the staff
   and having fun.
   
   
3. Volunteer as a part-time teacher's aide to see that your
   child is experiencing positive emotions and learning.
   
   
4. Enroll your child in a good preschool program so that
   she doesn't fall behind later when he commences elementary
   school.
   
   
5. Consider selecting a school for your child with a
   diversity of learning activities and enrichment
   opportunities.
   
   
6. Enroll your child in interesting enrichment programs
   like computers, art, choir, band, auto shop, dancing, etc.
   Don't forget sports for fun.
   
   
   

1. Practice positive parenting to improve your child's
   emotions and learning experiences.
   
   
2. Verbally encourage your child to learn at home by
   starting interesting conversations at the dinner table, and
   elsewhere.
   
   
3. Provide positive learning experiences at home that will
   help him at school, like crossword puzzles, math games,
   etc.
   
   
4. Be a positive role model by demonstrating to your child
   how you enjoy learning.
   
   
5. Encourage your child's imagination, dreams, hopes and
   creativity through, for example, reading about interesting
   or exciting pursuits and famous people.
   
   
6. Expose her to various hobbies that can generate interest
   in learning. Some examples are model airplanes, ant farms,
   hunting, fishing, biology sets, homing pigeons, etc.
   
   
7. Be on the look out for any hobby or learning activity
   that particularly interests your child or that she has
   special talent at, then, encourage it. It may lead to a
   future job.
   
   
8. Create your own enrichment program by going exploring
   for lizards, pollywogs, frogs, etc.
   
   
9. Go to the library with your child and see to it that he
   finds something interesting to read or do. Fluorescent
   night star charts, for example, are fun for some kids.
   
   
10. Show genuine excitement in your facial expression when
    discussing your child's learning activities. Remember you
    are his lead.
    
    
11. Turn the TV off since it stimulates aggressive and
    anxious feelings that interfere with learning.
    
    

Click, here, to watch the video demonstrating how TV is
psychologically designed to control your kid's mind to the
extent of making her desire things she doesn't really need.


Some general considerations to improve emotions and
learning that good examples of parenting style follow are:

1. Keep your child on her learning toes while you are out
   and about by asking her questions. Interesting or
   surprising questions and observations are best. Use your
   imagination.
   
   
2. Encourage your child to befriend kids who enjoy
   learning.
   
   
3. Don't forget to encourage play! Children's work is play.
   Learning occurs during play. Play creates positive emotions
   and learning.
   
   
4. Make learning play. Make learning fun for you and your
   child. The more learning that involves play, the better.
   
   
5. Keep in mind the relationship between emotions and learning.
   For more help, click here, for the education page. Positive
   emotions are associated with improved learning.
   
   
6. Remember when Johnny has a problem, make the problem the problem and not the child. In this way Johnny maintains
   his self-respect.
   
   
7. Good parenting means regularly monitoring your child.
   In the final analysis, you, the good parent, will be the
   single most important factor in determining whether or not
   your child succeeds or fails in school.