Questions tagged [motivation]
For all questions pertaining to motivation, like motivating children to do something (e. g. chores, homework, learning) or dealing with a child's lack of motivation.
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What do you do when a kid finds every excuse imaginable to avoid doing homework and chores? [duplicate]
Our kid spends so much time avoiding homework and chores, that it is time for bed before either thing is finished. My wife and I find ourselves standing over her and spending all our time refocusing ...
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How to help a child not be afraid to struggle with things that are easy for her older brother?
We started homeschooling this year, and my four year-old daughter has been comparing herself to her six year-old brother, then acting afraid to do anything when she doesn't measure up.
For example, ...
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My teenager doesn't care about being grounded - what now?
My kid refuses to do his homework and is failing freshman biology, literature, US History and Art in high school. I grounded him and he still won't do the work. I've taken away as many privileges as ...
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How do I help children who think they don't need to know math, still learn math and have fun doing it?
I am teaching mathematics for students from elementary school to senior high school. I advise the students to learn mathematics (as the language of nature) as well as English (as the international ...
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How do I get my 5 year old to be more appreciative and thankful for what she has?
Lately, my 5 year old daughter keeps focusing on things she doesn't have (some game that her friend has or some doll that she saw on a commercial that she "needs") and although she has plenty of dolls ...
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How to persuade lazy-to-think kids to learn mathematics?
I am teaching mathematics for kids. Some of them are so lazy in thinking. They often answer my questions without thinking. And some of them also early decide that they will be artists, dancers, ...
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How to get children to participate in housework without using reward/punishment
This is sort of an exploratory question, as I haven't really been confronted with the issue (yet).
I've been looking around for ways to get kids to do chores. I'm a bit put off by the fact that ...
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How to inspire a 7 year old to accelerate reading efforts?
I have a seven year old son who is having a hard time "getting inspired" to read regularly. This is somewhat of a struggle for me as his older brother was reading Harry Potter at around his age and ...
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How to motivate yourself to read stories to a kid whom you know cannot understand and respond accordingly?
From: How to read an English story book to the kid when we don't talk in English at home?
If you start immediately, it won't matter what language you're speaking; either way it will be babble :)...
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I can't motivate my 13 year old twins to get school work turned in
We have tried grounding them, taking all their privledges away, we have tried reward systems and nothing works. They have started lying about getting the work done and turned in when they know we ...
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Need suggestions on how to deal with my 11yo in school
This turned out way longer than I intended, please try to bulldoze thru it.
My oldest daughter is 11. She's the middle of 5 (21 19 11 9 7). Her older bros are in 'college' (they're taking classes). ...
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What are some great techniques for encouraging a reluctant reader?
My seven-year-old nephew is such a reluctant reader that despite the many teacherly suggestions I have been able to offer his mom and a lot of work with his own teachers he still just won't read. She ...
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How can I motivate my child who doesn't care about rewards?
My son is 8 and has always been argumentative and basically lazy with doing ANYTHING since he could talk.
If he has homework that takes ten minutes, he will take two hours due to just leaving the ...
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How do I motivate a primary schooler to practice musical instrument?
There is a question for an 8 year old, however for a younger child it might be different.
My child can not get through all the excercises and after 3 minutes walks away from the piano. Should I bribe ...
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How can I motivate my 16 yo daughter to do something valuable with her life?
I have a 16 year old daughter who, whenever she has free time wastes it on things that I think are futile like Facebook, Tumblr, etc.
She's also performing poorly at school. I've talked to her about ...
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