It’s a challenge to help children feel positive about school when frustration, boredom, over-testing, reduced elective time, and more intense curriculum demands block them from the joy they should experience from learning. You want them to keep alive the love of learning they had when they started kindergarten.

You can do this by connecting their classroom studies to their interests and their lives outside of the classroom. When you use strategies to reverse school negativity, you will promote children’s more positive responses to school.

Practice of what is learned, like exercising a muscle, is needed to build strong memories. The neuronal circuits holding memory become stronger each time the information is reviewed or applied.

The brain achieves this through a process of neuroplasticity. You help your kids expand and strengthen memory networks by activating and linking them to the school subject. An example would be triggering the memory (reminding them) of your family camping trip as they study about the settlers traveling across the country in covered wagons.

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