BEST MAIN POINTS FOR EDUCATING CHILDREN

Every child has many ways of being smart. Children are natural learners. They are born wanting to learn about the world. You as a parent are a natural teacher. There are new studies that show that parents naturally teach their children to talk. Parents use a special voice when talking to their babies. The voice is a high, sing-song voice that stretches out sounds. Babies learn the sounds of language best from the kind of voice that parents naturally use. You are your child's first and most important teacher. Trust yourself to learn the best ways to teach your child.

• Read to your child every day!
• Be available when your children need to talk
• Let your child see you reading.
• Ask your child questions before, during, and after reading.
• Look for letters while out and about and in the environment around you.
• Read a variety of books and make a game out of guessing the genre.
• When teaching letters and letter sounds, incorporate as many senses as possible.
• Have fun rhyming!
• Work on letter sounds and manipulating them within words (phonemic awareness)
• Encourage your child to sound out short words (consonant, vowel, consonant).
• Practice memorizing a few sight words each day.
• Have conversations with your children regularly, not just when there are problems
• Be resolved not to interrupt or overreact, no matter what your children say
• Try to remember how you felt at their age and what seemed important to you
• Discuss and agree on how you will discipline your children
• If you and your mate have a different opinion on how to train your children, try to see your mate’s point of view
• Make sure that your children see God as a real Person whom they can trust
• Help them learn to identify and avoid moral dangers, such as those found on the Internet and social networks. Teach them how to avoid sexual predators
• Most of all, have fun together!