Achievement of Excellence Through Motivation Children Learn What They Live

How can I instill a love of learning in my children? How can I make them learn with more enthusiasm? These are daily questions parents make when it comes to dealing with lack of motivation in their children.

In a greater or lesser degree every parent is confronted with bad attitudes toward learning. Laziness and lack of motivation are common concerns we have with our beloved offspring. Most of us recur to controlling, imposing, and a variety of disciplinary formulas based on punishment and rewards.

Nevertheless, none of these methods reach the heart of the child. They can be used to force the child to comply, but they will never motivate him or her to learn with passion.

Then how can we possibly make them learn all the stuff they need to learn for life?

We can't. And that is where most educators and parents miss it. True education will only occur when children learn to educate themselves. This happens when they genuinely live and experience what they are learning.

Traditional education has the tendency of viewing the child as a passive recipient that is to be filled with knowledge esteemed important by others. It would be great if we could learn this way: by memorizing facts. We'd all be walking encyclopedias!

The problem is that humans are not designed to learn this way. We were created to learn with passion. It is our natural inquisitiveness to explore the world around us that leads us to a powerful learning experience that will always be pursued with zeal.

No doubt there is a need for discipline when we instill good learning habits, but let us never forget to inspire them to pursue knowledge that is relevant to their life by themselves.