Your Child’s Foundational Learning Years: 6 Tips for Parents

As a parent, you want nothing more than for your child to be happy, especially in their Foundational Learning Years, and overall succeed in life. To support that, you may want them to stand out, be self-dependent, and have a decent future ahead. In short, you want to see them achieve great heights in life. But did any high-rise building ever stand strong without a strong foundation? No right? Similarly, your child indeed has the potential to reach and stay on those great heights you see for them. But for that, you need to ensure that their Foundational Learning Years are also strong and practical. Their Foundational Learning Years that involve grades 1 to 5 (primary school) should be strong and adequate to the best of possibilities. It is very easy to say and accept this fact, but what exactly should you do to ensure the required? If you ask this question around you, it may get you thousands of ideas and tips from people around you. Those tips may be backed by what worked for them, but will that work for your child too? Don’t forget that your child is unique on their own. There can never be a complete surety that what worked for some other child will work for yours too. Instead, there is a chance that it may harm your child’s learning altogether. Therefore, we at iPrep have come together with some highly practical tips. These tips are flexible and effective enough to meet every unique child’s and parents’ requirements and needs. By Following these tips, you can proudly make the best out of your child’s foundational learning years. What are those tips? Let’s uncover them right away.

Tips for parents of primary school students

Encourage A Love for Learning

To ensure that your child’s learning journey in the Foundational Learning Years is compelling and intense, you should first ensure that learning for them shouldn’t be something they have to do. It should be something they want to do. It is well established that a love for learning is one of the most important predictors of success. Children who start to love learning at an early age are more likely to perform well academically and go on to successful careers. How can parents encourage it in Foundational Learning Years? There are many things parents can do here including-

• Encourage your child to ask questions and explore their curiosity.
• Help them to find enjoyable learning resources or content that can build their interest in learning.
• Foster a positive attitude towards learning by showing excitement about learning new things yourself.
• Encourage them to set goals and work towards achieving them.
• Reward their efforts and successes, both big and small.

Ensure you never force learning on them; that can take away all the joy. They should be self-motivated to learn and grow because only then can they bring the best possible outcome. The iPrep Learning App here can take care of the learning content needs as it has multiple categories of highly enjoyable learning content that suit every unique child’s foundational learning needs. The app has highly enjoyable animated video lessons, practice sets, tests, digital course books, a digital books library, practical videos, and whatnot.

Help Them Carve Their Path

There has been a recent trend of parents expecting hours of self-study from their primary school children even after their packed school schedule or maybe even tuition classes. These students also get homework to do on top of that. Don’t you think all that is too much for such young minds? While the parents only have their child’s best interests at heart, it is essential to consider if this is the right way to help their child learn and grow. It is entirely evident that students who are allowed to discover their own pace and create their own learning path at an early age are more engaged and successful in school. They become responsible and develop credibility. These two are part of two of the building blocks of success. Parents should leave it to their children to decide how much and when they’ll learn. Meanwhile, they should ensure that they are aware of these decisions and check if they can meet the requirements. Rest they should be there to help in whatever way possible to follow those decisions. The iPrep app here can be of great help as it has no usage limit. Learners can learn whatever they want, whenever, and how much they want when learning with iPrep. Therefore, learners can decide their self-learning pace and then practice it with iPrep.

Restrict Their Dependencies 

Students nowadays depend too much on a single category of learning resources for learning in their Foundational Learning Years. Some only read books for learning, some only watch videos, and some only go through class notes. However, it can be risky as there can be times when that kind of learning resource isn’t available per their requirements. Therefore, parents should ensure that their children have a taste of all. They should be comfortable learning with whatever resources are available from a very early age. It is okay to have choices and stick to them when they are available, but learners should not face problems in learning when they are not. Also, students nowadays rely too much on Mobiles and even TVs for fun and entertainment, which can restrict their holistic growth. Parents should ensure that their kids explore practical learning and other activities that can give them a real-life connection and a productive way of having fun. They should also facilitate elements in their fun time that can inspire them and help them build their interests and passions. The iPrep app here comes with various content categories. Exploring all of these categories one by one as per learning requirements will not just ensure effective learning but will also eliminate their dependence on a single category. Further, the inspirational and exciting story books in the digital books library, together with STEM practical videos, can ensure a productive, fun time for your kids.

Ensure that they are comfortable sharing their issues with you

Being too strict with your child and ignoring their issues while just pushing your expectations on them in their Foundational Learning Years will result in nothing but a distance between your child and effective learning. It may also create differences between you and your child, which is not good news. Therefore, parents should be appropriately lenient with their children. They should encourage them to share whatever issues they face openly. This will create a good relationship within them and help parents identify their child’s learning gaps.  Once identified, parents should encourage and help their child to work on resolving or filling those learning gaps as soon as possible. The iPrep app here comes with a class change feature. In case of a learning gap, learners can quickly switch to a junior class and learn from the basics to clear all their historical learning gaps without any judgment or restriction.

Keep a good track of their progress

Parents play a vital role in ensuring their children receive a good learning experience in their Foundational Learning Years. They can do this by keeping track of their progress and ensuring they receive the best possible learning. There are several ways that parents can keep good track of their child’s progress. One of the most important things they can do is to ensure they are keeping up with their homework and assignments. Parents should also ensure that their child attends school regularly and on time. They should also check in with their child’s teacher regularly to get an update on how they are doing. But how can parents track how much knowledge their children have gained? Going regularly to school is fine, and doing homework is fine but does that ultimately ensure effective learning where they have gained knowledge? Will it ensure their growth? No right? The iPrep app has a progress tracking feature in the My Reports section. Parents can track what all their children learned, for how long, and the level of mastery they have achieved in those topics or subjects.

Allow them to make mistakes and meanwhile motivate them to learn from their mistakes

It is crucial for parents to allow their children to make mistakes in their Foundational Learning Years. These young minds need to learn how to deal with the consequences of their actions at a very early age. The only thing they need to do is learn from those mistakes. This will help them grow and avoid repeating mistakes. There are some benefits of allowing your children to make mistakes, including-

• First is very obvious that they get to learn from their mistakes and avoid making the same mistakes again
• They become more independent and self-reliant
• They know how to make decisions on their own
• They learn how to take responsibility for their own actions

But, to learn from their mistakes, these children should first get to know that they made a mistake together with the right approach to whatever they made a mistake in. The iPrep app here has an instant feedback feature for all our MCQ-based topic-wise practice sets and Chapter-wise tests. Whether you submit the wrong answer or the right one, you’ll instantly receive to-the-point feedback consisting of the correct logic and approach to the question.

Conclusion

To conclude, it is difficult for parents to ensure that their child achieves excellent heights in school and life. But, if you can make the best out of their foundational years of learning which are when they are in primary school, the chances of them being able to crack it will increase to the best of possibilities. Download the iPrep app now and empower your child with everything they need for effective learning and growth. Our yearly subscription is just Rs 3000, which comes with access to the entire learning content present on our app. We assure you that buying it will be the best decision you will make for your child’s learning.