Let your child learn from his mistakes!

                I know that it is very hard for most of us to sit back and let his child do mistakes without directing his deeds and behaviors.

                In fact, we need to do that and bite our tongue for some time giving them the chance to make mistakes that we will use later to help them learn from their mistakes. And then we can guide the behavior and actions. I agree with you that this is not easy to do at all, but let's learn how to do.

Just let your child do his own matters;

                Let your child do his/her things such as homework, science experiment, art project or whatever he/she does.

Watch his behaviors only;

                Just watch, don't offer any help, because such homework is for the child to practice and for his teacher to know what the child already had learned and which points need some more work.

Later be your child's guide;

In other words, help your child to learn how to learn. While watching your child behavior, you should be thinking how would you guide him when time comes. Use some phrases like: "What do you think if you do it like that?" , "How could we figure that out?" , and so on. This will help him to think of problems and give his own opinion to solve them. This is the ideal way to help your child learn how to learn.

Share your child his games;

                Let your child lose his game. Later, share him his game in order to let him win, but in a strategic way. It won't be a real wining for your child, but you lose to let him learn how to strengthen his strategies and see that he can learn from other people.

Finally, I agree with you it is not so easy at all to sit back like this watching our childs frustration. But we need to do just to let them learn themselves how to learn.

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