Staying in your comfort zone will not help you in your 4+ Assessment journey.

We are creatures of comfort.

It’s how we have been wired.

Even the ultra successful are creatures of comfort.

We want things to come easily to us, we want to avoid discomfort, we seek pleasure and we definitely don’t want to struggle with preparing our children for their 4+ Assessments.

However, hear me when I say this. Staying in your comfort zone will not help you in your 4+ Assessment journey.

Because staying in your comfort zone, most likely means that your child loves all of the learning that you are doing with them. Because staying in your comfort zone, most likely means that your child wants to do everything you place in front of them. This is not what 4+ Assessment success looks like. Quite the opposite actually.

Because if this is the case, you most likely are not challenging your child to the level that they need to be challenged in order to pass their 4+ Assessments.

4+ Assessment success looks like this.

Resistance

Struggle

Discomfort

Fun

Joy

Happiness

It is a full 50/50 spectrum of emotions.

When you provide your child with learning that they perhaps don’t like, that they perhaps don’t want to do - that’s when you will start feeling uncomfortable.

This is when most parents throw their hands up in the air and just give up.

They say things like this…

“Whatever, she’s only 3.”

“I’ll just send him in and what will be will be.”

“It won’t be as hard as people tell me it is!”

“This is ridiculous!”

“I’m so frustrated.”

I could go on.

This is not the time to throw your hands up in the air and give up. This is your time to keep going. To make friends with the discomfort. To invite it in. You will feel uncomfortable on this journey towards preparing your child for their 4+ Assessments and that’s ok.

Accept it.

Embrace it.

Know that it will all be worth it in the end.

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