The Problem
Many children today are weak or deficient in the key skills they need for academic success.
The Cause of the Problem:
A 5 headed modern Beast is injuring the learning potential of our children.
- Bad Role Models on TV
- Economic Stress
- Advertizing Industry's Mind Control
- Stimulation & Hyper Activity Levels
- Technology Overload
The Influence of Media and Technology
Children today think, feel, communicate and learn differenctly than children of the past. We are undertaking an experiment in child rearing. Never before in history have children been raised with so much exposure to technology and media. An average child sits in front of TV, video and/or computer screens for 5 to 7 hours each day. Research suggests that this level of audio visual stimulation is having a negative effect on our children's learning, communication and behavior skills. TV, video gaming and computer screen watching often has a hypnotic, pacifying effect on a child's mind. School work requires active mental processing. For many children listening, concentrating, memorizing and learning has become a tremendous and uncomfortable strain on the brain.
School Work is Harder Than Ever
Schools today are demanding that children learn harder and harder material in earlier and earlier grades. Many children today have difficulties with key learning, study, test taking, memorization, communication, reading, organization and comprehension skills.
Learning Skills are the Foundation of Success
Many children today have difficulties with key learning, study, test taking, memorization, communication, reading, listening, organization and comprehension skills. There are a handful of key Learning Skills that create a foundation for learning and success. When the learning of these skills is haphazard, not prioritized, or left to chance, children may experience frustration and difficulties when they try to learn. When key learning skills are weak children often get turned off to school and do not want, or know how, to work up to their potential. The Success Program provides a method for building the key Learning and Success Skills that your child needs to be successful in today’s world.
The Solution:
The solution is simple. Build key learning and behavior skills to build life long success. Building key skills enables your child achieve and succeed. Many children turn off to school because they do not know how to succeed. Many parents and teachers believe that if only a child is motivated, he or she would succeed. Motivation, however, is usually not the problem. If I were to offer you 10 million dollars to break through a wall you would be motivated. However, if you do not know how to break through the wall you will not be able to do it no matter how much you want to. A child needs both motivation and key skills for success.
Fix the Foundation to Fix the House
The Cracked Foundation - Missing Link perspective holds that most students who are working under their potential are weak or lacking in just a few critical learning skills. The foundation learning skills of many students today is cracked. Children may have difficulties with understanding, reading, memorization, focusing, emotion control, frustration, persistence, organization, test taking, listening, recall, study, writing and/or other specific skills. When we are able to identify and fix the most important ‘cracks’ in a child’s foundation for learning, we help a child overcome the key things holding him or her back. When we fix the foundation we fix the house. Many children lose their motivation to learn because they secretly believe that they are dumb or not able to succeed. Embarrassment and humiliation have been found to be more feared than death. Children may use the strategy of getting into trouble or not caring in order to hide their embarrassment and fear that others will see that they are 'stupid'. Taking a few minutes a day to build your child's learning, communication and behavior skills gives them the tools to achieve life long success.
Learning How to Learn is Key
Many children need to learn and use specific strategies in order to improve their capacity to learn and succeed. Schools do not always teach students how to learn. Schools often teach students what to learn and hope that this will lead to students learning how to learn. This strategy works for many students. This strategy, however, often does not work well for all students. Many children need help in learning how to learn. They get distracted and do not know how to get back to the task at hand. They may be disorganized and do not know how to keep track of their assignments and what they need to do. Their minds may wander when they are reading and they often do not know how to read for comprehension. They may focus on small inconsequential things and miss what is most important in what they are seeing, hearing, reading or learning. They may get frustrated when they are trying to learn something new and do not know how to calm themselves down and overcome the anxiety of feeling dumb. They get nervous when taking a test and do not know how to relax in order to concentrate better. Their mind wanders when they have to memorize things and they often do not know how to use effective memorization techniques. This list goes on and on.
The Importance of Memorization Skill
A good example of a critical skill that may be weak is that of memorization skill. Memorization skills are one of the most important ingredients of school success. Children who do good on tests and have good grades often have very good memorization skills. These children are not necessarily more intelligent. Memorization skills can be taught and learned. When children are given instruction and methods to improve their memorization skills, they can do much better on tests and quizzes.
Building Critical Skills 10 Minutes a Day
The Parent Power Child Success Program provides you and your child with a step by step method for improving the most important learning and study skills. The program takes only minutes a day.
