How To Help Your Child Learn To Read

#1 Make sure he gets enough sleep

We all know about cranky kids...they don't function well. Whatever is being taught in the classroom will not be going in. You are responsible for making sure he has adequate uninterrupted sleep every night.

#2 Get the food right!

Your child needs the right sort of food to grow and learn and you are responsible for providing it.
Go for breakfast without sugar. Check your cereal packet. Sugar gives your child a high which rapidly turns into a low.

When it comes to packing lunch:

Bad ...anything in an individual packet.

Anything that tries to convince you it's healthy... but just has to be in child friendly packaging so your child will eat it... is not healthy. It's likely to be packed with sugar to get your child addicted to it.
 
Good ...anything in its natural state, like fruit, vegies, nuts, seeds...cheese, soyless bread, natural yogurt etc

Your child's health will benefit from one simple change...no small commercial ready-made packets of food in his lunchbox.
Not only will you be educating your child about healthy eating, you'll be saving money as well as future dental and medical bills.

We all know that eating junk food rates pretty highly in any child's life. But we unconsciously 'feed the habit', by using it either as a bribe or reward. Well your child doesn't need these bribes or rewards. 

Most people believe that legislation protects us from harmful foods. It doesn't. We are being slowly poisoned every day by what we eat. The good news is that we can do something about it. We can do some research before we believe advertising messages.

 
#3 Get your child there on time

Late is embarrassing.
 

#4 Ask about his day

Be genuinely interested...and listen to what he says. If things have not been great tell him you love him no matter what, and talk through any problems calmly with him.
 

#5 Change your child from saying "I can't" to saying "I can"!

The greatest gift you can give your children is the motivation and judgment to figure things out for themselves sensibly, every day.

In this book you will discover a groundbreaking approach you can use with your children to help them be successful now and throughout their lives.

You will learn fun activities and powerful techniques that will put them on a path to becoming "can-do kids". After even one activity you will see a noticeable improvement in your children's confidence and how they make decisions.

Children want to be resourceful and self-reliant - all they need are examples and your encouragement

Positive parenting alone isn't enough

"Positive parenting means you are constantly giving your children love, respect and praise. Positive parents keep their children safe - physically and emotionally. Positive parents model and teach good behaviour and beliefs. Positive parents encourage self-confidence and a host of other positive  feelings in their children, such as happiness, trust, the ability to feel and show affection, and pride in accomplishment. This is the kind of behaviour in children that inspires an upward spiral of more positive parenting.

Unfortunately, positive parenting alone isn't enough to raise resourceful kids.

Many parents who provide this type of parenting still might thwart self-reliance in their children by over-protecting, over-structuring, over-advising and over-indulging them. The abusive parent threatens and criticizes a child into submission, whereas the loving but over-protective parent can smother a child in a protective cocoon and remove opportunities for accomplishment, though with the best of intentions. In neither case will a child ever reach full potential because he or she simple lacks the resourcefulness to do so."

Written by highly acclaimed psychologist, Dr Brad Smart, and inspiring family therapist, Dr Kate Smart Mursau