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    How to self-teach your child to focus and pay attention?

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      Ashes
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      Is there anyway to deal with daydreaming and lack of motivation & confident ?


      Since P1 , my son does not have stress with school. Teacher always feedback that he is not paying attention and lieks to daydream and worse still his result is at the borderline & he will b in P4 GEP next year...

      He can only do his works well when i sit with him. :?:

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        Chenonceau
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        Ashes:
        Is there anyway to deal with daydreaming and lack of motivation & confident ?


        Since P1 , my son does not have stress with school. Teacher always feedback that he is not paying attention and lieks to daydream and worse still his result is at the borderline & he will b in P4 GEP next year...

        He can only do his works well when i sit with him. :?:
        Maybe he is bored with how he is being taught. GEP next year may wake him up. Wait and see?

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          Ashes
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          Chenonceau:
          Ashes:

          Is there anyway to deal with daydreaming and lack of motivation & confident ?


          Since P1 , my son does not have stress with school. Teacher always feedback that he is not paying attention and lieks to daydream and worse still his result is at the borderline & he will b in P4 GEP next year...

          He can only do his works well when i sit with him. :?:

          Maybe he is bored with how he is being taught. GEP next year may wake him up. Wait and see?

          The main problem is, he doesn't bother with result at all. He can do well with us (teacher or me) sitting down with him. but when he is alone in the examination hall, he will finish the paper in less than 30 mins, scribbling without looking at the question.

          How to change his attitude???

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            lcheong88
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            I have 2 kids enrolled at kumon, I think the teaching method has helped with training them to be independent in their home work. Price is reasonable. Both are in maths class.

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              lcheong88
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              I think training your kids to play puzzle or building legos is a good way to teach them to be focus.


              Sit down with them and guide them the 1st & 2nd time. You can tell once they master how they do it independently they will be very interested to complete the puzzel / Lego.

              I tried Lego for my 7th old son with the star wars Lego. And my 5yr old son with jigsaw puzzle and both methods worked.

              Praise and give encouragements. They will feel more confconfident. Soon they will want you to buy them more…

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                Oppsgal
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                The only time my child focus is when watching the fav show… Can sit there very quiet without me around nearby.

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                  lcheong88
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                  I tried various methods, the most effective so far for my 4, 6 & 8 yrs sons is by creating a. Corner for study or reading only. Tv are to be switched off to minimize distractions. This does not work all the time. But it has at least improved the situation 70 to 80%.


                  Focus On praising the child on the things they have done correctly ANd not to emphasize on the mistakes. Guide them when they have made a mistake.

                  Let them know the consequences if they do not focus and do their work fast. Take away their favorite toy or favorite activity when they refused to focus on home work. This works better compared to physical punishment. A lot of patience is needed as this method takes a month or so to kick in.

                  Reduce tv or electronics devices exposure helps too. Not saying to take aWay 100% to deprive them from enjoyment but to limit the time e.g half hour to 1 hr is god enough twice a week.

                  Just have to be persistent, patience, and make sure everyone uses the same teaching method. It will not work if someone interferes with the opposite.

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                    arigatou
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                        celebratelife
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                        cherrygal:
                        Read about many expensive mind training schools such as Shichida, Little Neuro Tree and Brainfit that supposedly teach kids to think and focus etc.


                        Has anyone successfully trained your young kids (esp boys) to focus on schoolwork, and sit down quietly to read/study on their own accord, without sending them to those schools?

                        Please share?
                        Dear cherrygal,

                        It's natural that children have short attention span. Usually they grow out of it as they age - in the 1980s at least. Now, with the advent and proliferation of the internet and the boosted effectiveness of multi-tasking (which has been debunked by some critics recently), it's almost impossible for teens to stay focused - even when they are well into their teens! This is a sad fact but true nevertheless.

                        One way to enable them to stay focused is to let them engage in an activity which they are interested in and then let them be - preferable up till the completion of the activity. For young kids, simple jig-saw puzzles might help (but it should not be the very challenging types that take days to complete. An hour or two to complete the activity should suffice). Once they have completed such an activity, compliment them on their consistent and focused effort and encourage them to bring this consistency to their other activities. Over time, they will be more focused and their concentration powers will increase.

                        It's quite sad that most workplaces today place much emphasis on the effectiveness and efficiency of multi-tasking instead of focused tasks, as there are some which states that the act of multi-tasking is merely the handling of multiple tasks sequentially.

                        Warmest Regards,
                        Patrick

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