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Promote concentration in children step by step

There are many causes of difficulty concentrating when learning. We show simple tips and tricks on how to promote your children’s concentration and increase their motivation to learn (plus: 8 concentration exercises).

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Children are individual and so is their learning style. While one child prefers to learn alone, another in the team is more powerful. But even if it is clear what type of learning your child belongs to, there are phases in which the concentration, ie the ability to focus attention on a specific task, subsides.

Finding the causes of difficulty concentrating in children is often not that difficult. In this article, you will learn how to track them down, eliminate them with simple means, and promote long-term concentration and motivation for your child.

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The concentration killers – 8 problems and the antidotes

1. Distraction by external factors

The number 1 reason for distraction and the reason for poor concentration in many schoolchildren is the television. But radio, telephone or the playing siblings can also interfere if they have to concentrate. So try very consciously, everyone Avoid sources of interference, to improve your child’s concentration, such as placing your cell phone out of reach.

To prevent siblings from interrupting their learning, B. fixed learning times during which the learning child should not be disturbed and distracted. On Information sign on the door helps everyone remember to be extra careful at this time.

2. Unhealthy eating and lack of exercise

Relaxation and variety are important for the brain to recharge your batteries. Especially healthy eating and exercise in the fresh air give strength and help to promote concentration in the long term.

If your child has a learning blockade, go together take a walk, drink a delicious tea with honey or talk about something else for half an hour.

Sweets, on the other hand, are not beneficial: they only raise the blood sugar level for a short time. After a short time he sinks back into the basement, the tiredness attack follows and the concentration is gone.

3. Disinterest and little prior knowledge

If you are not interested in a certain topic and / or have no previous knowledge, you will find it difficult to concentrate. Special concentration exercises don’t help, says Elsbeth Stern, psychologist and professor for teaching and learning research in Focus Schule (2/2014). The students are quickly distracted, the concentration sinks into the basement. But children who stay tuned, continuously build up and expand their knowledge and go to class with preparation are easier to do.

Studying the learning material outside of school often brings the pupils a lot further. It also motivates children when they do understand why they need to learn certain things:

A trip to the forest or the zoo is therefore worthwhile for the subject of biology.

A special and especially child-friendly (experience) museum is a good idea for dry history topics.

Already knew? According to the study, 45 percent of children have learning with fun most enjoyable when learning with computers, tablets or smartphones allowed to. At scoyo, Germany’s number 1 learning platform *, the school material of grades 1-7 is packed into exciting learning stories – interactive exercises and tests consolidate the new knowledge. The learning content is based on the class level, school type and curriculum of the federal state – so your child can find all the topics they need.

Learn with scoyo yourself and at your own pace:

4. Overwhelmed by too many tasks

Children naturally love to learn. Actually. However, if there is too much pressure and too many tasks (at the same time) are given, this natural thirst for knowledge can subside and lead to frustration in learning, which is particularly expressed in a lack of concentration or lack of motivation.

To avoid this, allow your child to postpone or omit a task as long as it has no serious effects.

And in general: Multitasking often backfires, better tackle one task at a time.

5. Lack of sleep

Sleep makes you smart! This is not just a saying, it is really true – sleep researchers agree on this. Because during the night‘s sleep, what is experienced and learned during the day is consolidated in the brain, is organized and processed.

As a result, the information, such as the practiced vocabulary, gets into long-term memory – and short-term memory has room for new information again.

Weakness of concentration in schoolchildren is therefore often caused by lack of sleep. Adequate bed rest is therefore essential for more concentration among students. Warning: the younger the child, the more sleep they need: 9 to 11 hours are always appropriate.

6. Frustration with difficult tasks

If a task seems indomitable, it is absolutely no fun to continue looking for the solution. Learning frustration is inevitable, distractions lure everywhere.

With such tasks, it is always good to do this in to disassemble small steps. Your child comes to the end result step by step. And on the way there it will be rewarded with small success stories – wonderful and guaranteed motivating! Because children need the confidence that even difficult tasks can be solved.

7. Children learn because they have to, not because they want to

Especially Printing through notes and expectations of teachers and parents block children in their learning behavior and cause concentration problems and difficulties. Children learn best when they can independently develop their knowledge through tasks that suit their interests.

In an interview, scoyo managing director and family man Daniel Bialecki explains why self-determined learning is so important for motivation to learn:

In alternative schools such as Waldorf schools or Montessori schools, self-determined learning is the focus.

8. The thought carousel turns and turns

Many adults know it from the sleep phase: the topics and experiences of the day are circling in the head and simply do not let you rest. Even in children, the brain does not automatically switch to concentration when the learning period begins. Sometimes there is just too much going on and the inner unrest reduces the focus on the school material. Here you can help with a quiet conversation about processing the troublemakers and mindfulness exercises. Try it.

The concentration hacks – with 8 tips for more focus

During school there are always phases in which children are more or less concentrated.

Often hang difficulty concentrating from schoolchildren lack of motivation together. This is completely normal and is nothing to worry about.

The following tips are only intended to give you suggestions on how you can get your child out of a learning depth if everything known does not help.

Points 1 and 7 in particular ensure continuous concentration and motivation.

1. Express praise instead of criticism

Acknowledge your child’s effort, regardless of success: This means not only praising good grades, but also emphasizing the effort that was required to achieve the learning objective: "You have done a great job" is better than "But you are clever". This way children learn that they can achieve anything if they make an effort.

Very important: evaluate mistakes as a normal and necessary part of a learning task and explain to your child that Mistakes not bad are, but must even be. Through them we sometimes learn more and more effectively than from a straightforward solution.

All of this strengthens children’s personality and self-esteem.

2. Promote the child’s self-motivation

Being able to motivate yourself and to concentrate on one thing are important qualities that children should acquire for their later life. Most children are most motivating when they be allowed to choose, what you want to learn. The often rigid teaching, however, puts a spanner in the works for many students.

In order to promote concentration at home, parents could therefore use their child let yourself decide, with which tasks it wants to start, with which methods it learns best and at which time it is most motivated (see tip 5).

Even small rewards that the child is allowed to set for themselves strengthen self-motivation; that could e.g. B. listening to music or playing a game together. Colorful notices, short learning slogans or a great place to learn can also be incentives.

Also Online learning platforms like scoyo promote exploratory learning. Here the pupils decide themselves what they want to learn when, how and to what extent. There is no straight path, the learners have to “work out” a solution. This strengthens self-confidence and creates special access to the content.

3. Learn varied, using different learning methods

With the help of alternative learning methods, parents can very quickly promote concentration and motivation in children. The following applies here: Everything is permitted that makes learning more interesting.

For example, does your child need to learn vocabulary? Then maybe a tandem partner is a great alternative to stubborn memorizing: Here you learn together with a native speaker and teach each other the foreign language. Or read an engaging book in the foreign language together. This way your child will recognize the purpose of memorizing much better. Because that is not about good grades, but about being able to communicate in another country.

And that can be applied to all subjects. Learning within an interesting project or at concrete examples from everyday life is just a lot more fun.

4. Use of new media makes learning fun

Good learning programs are also tailored to the curricula of the federal states and are therefore ideal for reworking and internalizing the material treated at school in a playful way at home.

Different seals indicate the quality of the offer – you can find more on this in this article: How to recognize the quality of online learning offers.

However, safe handling of digital media is the be-all and end-all here. Use our test to better assess your child’s media literacy: free media literacy test.

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