Finding Those Important Opportunities To Mentor Your Children
/As their parents, we are all responsible for a large part of our children’s’ journeys through education and learning. However, that doesn’t mean that every parent is used to taking an active role in it.
Finding an opportunity to mentor your child doesn’t only teach them a skill, it develops a dynamic that encourages them to be open with you and to be willing to learn from you. So, how do you build that relationship?
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Language
Naturally, if you’re raising bilingual children, then you can play a huge role in helping them learn a new language if you also speak it.
Many bilingual households will, for instance, put in place loose rules that certain languages are only to be spoken at certain times of the day. This is to help them acclimatise in a way that’s more natural and gradual than simply sitting them down for intensive languages.
It’s also one of the most commercially and career-relevant skills you can start teaching at a young age.
Cooking
Cooking is another skill that can be taught young, at least in part, and be immensely practical and important in your child’s future. First of all, it teaches them to be self-sufficient in at least one way, preparing them for their future. However, you can take it further with the help of apps like Healthy Heroes and teach them about healthy food choices and how to start constructing a healthy diet for themselves.
Given how much of chronic disease is influenced by factors like diet, it should never be underestimated how important it is to teach healthy habits from the get-go.
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Outdoorsmanship
It’s best to fill in the gaps left by school to supplement your child’s formal education. One of the biggest of those gaps is how well they connect to nature.
Most children are only going to experience as much of nature as you expose to them. Getting into hobbies like fishing with the help of sites like Tailored Tackle can be vital in helping them build a connection and an understanding of nature they wouldn’t have otherwise.
It’s all too easy to miss that connection in this increasingly digital world, so taking the time to build that familiarity can be vital.
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Time management
As children grow older, they are going to find more constraints on their day, typically as a result of school knocking in on their free time. As such, you shouldn’t underestimate the importance of helping them learn to manage that time.
You want to make sure they get their homework and studying done, but rather than dictating their terms, you can use sites like myHomework that can help them find the best times to do their work and develop the habits of sticking to a schedule.
Your children aren’t going to see you as a mentor, on top of being a parent, unless you find the opportunity to actually mentor them in something. The above suggestions are just that. If you have your own ideas, then it’s always better to work with what you already know best.
Disclosure: This is a collaborative post.
