Do you expect learning in the early years to be linear?

When we first start working with some of our clients, they have this belief that learning is linear.

That their child will ‘just get it’. It’s so easy after all? Well, to you it is! To 2 and 3 year olds it won’t be.

What you need to expect is for learning to be bumpy.

It will be up and down. It will have twists and turns.

Your child will get something instantly and will not get something else so easily.

Your child will love certain areas of learning and they will not like others at all. Nothing has gone wrong. As soon as you make it mean that something has gone wrong, guess what will happen? You will just give up.

You will say to yourself things like:

‘Well what’s even the point?’

‘Why am I bothering?’

‘He will just get it nearer the time of the assessment!’ (that’s a sneaky thought which is a complete lie by the way). 

Learning is never linear.

Even when your child does go to school, do not expect learning to be linear.

Do not expect for your child to just make progress in a linear manner. They will not.

And expecting them to will just lead to disappointment and comparison to others who you just assume ‘get it!’ but that is most certainly never the case. 

Our most successful clients are the clients who know that learning will not follow a linear pattern.

Our most successful clients are the clients who don’t get discouraged when their children do not learn their phonics as quickly as they expect that they should.

Our most successful clients are the ones who know that it might take their child a long, long time to recognise numbers and even when they don’t recognise numbers, they will relentlessly continue to show them.

Our most successful clients are the clients who continue to ask their children a variety of different questions even though their children don’t answer in the manner that they would like them to.

Our most successful clients are the  ones who are willing to be disappointed and know that success will only come to them if they carry on and persevere. 

Ready to accelerate your child’s learning? Book your Sample Lesson today. Final 4 times with me before I close the programme for a while.