WHO SHOULD TAKE COURSE?

Nowadays it is not odd to see parents let their children take a lot of courses altogether, include courses for school subjects. But is that a proper approach? is that the only solution available ?           

Parents may have a lot of reasons in put their children in such courses. May they are so busy for work so don’t have enough time spent to teach their kids. Or they may not well understand the subject, such as math or mandarin language. The other reason is parents want their children to master certain skills such as music, drawing or ballet etc.

In order to get best result of the courses we need to consider few aspect of our children such as :-

·         Stamina

First of all we need to ensure that our children are physically fit to take courses. Often after school times our children stamina need a rest. By watching our children stamina at this period of time we can ensure their active participation in the course.  If we found that our children stamina at this period is decrease, then let them take one or two hours rest may be the best solution, before taking any courses.

·         Interest and talents

School subject course is good to support the school activities but we shall not rely our children’s school result to the courses. There are a lot of courses that have different curriculum compare to the school. Our constant review and close supervision is still needed. We need to pick courses that provide curriculum in line with the school and at the same time able to fishing out children’s interest to the course subject.

Another alternative for providing additional learning to school subject is to have study group amongst the peers. By having the study group, children still can interact between themselves within relaxes atmosphere of a home and at the same time discussing or learning the school subject together. The key element of this study group is the parents hosting the study group. The parents need to ensure that relax atmosphere does not eliminate the seriousness of the learning.

Further as parents we obviously will provide nothing else but the best to our children. We want them to be success in their future and therefore armed them with additional skill courses. But do we realized that “the success” we imagine is often actually “our success” or “success by the way of our thinking”. As a successful professional, we usually want our children to be professional like us. Or may be as an entrepreneur we want our children to be a professional because we think this is the best for their future. But is this the real interest and talent within our children? Our children may have their own talent to be success in their own way.

Our children’s involvement in course will not optimum if the courses that they take is not in line with their interest or talent. Some children may even feel depressed if fail to recognize that they are not enjoy in such courses and we keep push them to actively participate in the course.  

With the above two thinking in our minds let us choose the best suitable way available for our children.