Motivating Your Child to Study

Motivating a student to study isn’t an easy feat. There are countless distractions that amount to the overall lack of motivation for the child to study. This is significantly true for children who are active and easily distracted by their environment. Most times, students also lack the motivation to study because they think it’s a chore. If you’re a parent and you’re tired of nagging your child to study, you are not alone.

However, it should also be noted that even when parents are sick of nagging their child, methods such as punishing their child if they don’t study simply won’t do. Aside from the negative impact, it can have on your child, it also affects how they see studying. Instead of motivating them further, they will only see studying as a reminder of the strict methods used against them. They will study, but it will not be an enjoyable experience. They will because they have to.

Parents should also consider the time and energy the child also puts into school. After a long day in school, if the parent continues to nag their child about studying again, they will react to this negatively. While parents argue that this is because they want their child to get good grades, the child’s feelings should also be considered. If parents continue to bombard their child with more (may it be practice papers or exercises) after they spent the entire day in school plus homework when they get home, they might get frustrated.

Motivation for students is sometimes not innate. This means that they may need outside forces to help them gain motivation to further their learning. It is especially true for students who are struggling with a subject and those who have low self-esteem. Admittedly, this goes hand in hand. If the student is struggling, they will most likely not understand the lesson and score lower on their quizzes. When this happens, they will feel bad and be discouraged thus, their self-esteem will also plummet.

A child losing their motivation to study can be a very difficult circumstance to work with. Building motivation and confidence has to start with the child. They will need help from other people, but they have to realize this themselves to further work on their motivation. As parents, you shouldn’t just be bystanders during this process. A child will need all the help they can get.

Now, this brings us to the question: How can parents help motivate their children to learn? There are many ways to help the child be motivated in studying. We have gathered a few tips to help parents with this question.