Don’t give up because you think it’s not going ‘perfectly’.

Many of our clients want things to go perfectly when it comes to their children’s learning. They have this picture perfect view of what learning should look like.

Perhaps they picture their child coming out of their bedroom, skipping along and being delighted to see the learning that they have set up for them. When in reality perhaps they wake up crying from a sleepless night, grumpy and highly irritable. Perhaps your child is unwell.

They see the learning you have set up for them and they pick up a puzzle piece and throw it across the room. Perhaps they have no desire to complete the learning that you have set up for them.

Perhaps all they want to do that morning is go and sit and play with their magna-tiles by themselves. Nothing has gone wrong. 

Learning is not picture perfect. It never is. And if someone leads you to believe that it is for them, it’s just simply not the case.

Do you think when I worked full time in schools with 20-30+ children in my classes that every day was picture perfect for each and every individual child? 

Far from it. So why do so many of you expect it to be? 

It will never be. 

There will be times that it will go perfectly well and there will be times that it won’t. If you expect this to be the case, you will avoid being deeply disappointed. You will avoid putting so much unnecessary and unrealistic pressure on yourselves.  

For today’s challenge I’d like you to play ‘Number Hunting’ with your child. Take a large bowl and fill it with rice. Inside the rice hide several numbers (depending on your child’s number recognition ability). Ask your child to put their hands into the rice and to pull out a number. Once they have pulled it out, ask them to tell you the number! If they don’t know the number, you tell them and have them repeat the number to you. 

Book your Assessment Consultation Discovery Call today and find out how we can support you every step of the way to have tremendous success in this 4+ assessment.