How to increase your child's attention span

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Name: Matthew
Country: India
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It is interesting to see that most of the questions and worries come from india. Not to blame parents. We have been supporting such a poor quality school system where the children are taught to join the rat race. Why not watch "taare zamin par"? And rethink about our concerns...?

Name: Meenal
Country: India
Comment:
YOUR TIPS ARE VERY HELPFULL.MY 5 YRS OLD DAUGHTER HAS AGAIN GAINED INTEREST IN STUDIES AND READING. I HAVE MADE A SCHEDULE FOR HER AND I SIT WITH HER AND WE READ BOOKS.HER READING SKILLS ARE IMPROVING

Name: Latoya Copeland
Country: Jamaica
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teachers should plan their lesson with more hands on material so that the children can used them,as teachers if you bring some unsual things in the clasroom you will see how much it grabs the students attention and how effective the lesson will be.

Name: Alokananda M.
Country: India
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If we consider this problem of watching TV from the point of view of the society at large the following points might be considered: 1.There should be a limit for the telecast of cartoon channels. 2.Cartoon channels should be pay channels.

Name: Eugene
Country: U.S.A.
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I have read all the parents conserns in this thread in hopes that someone would say how they deal with this issue But Unfortunately did not found any solutions to try at home

Name: monica
Country: U.S.A.
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My 8 yr old daughter has always been very wel-mannered and fun loving. I noticed atthe begining of the 3rd grade that she is changing not excited about school, lazy, not following instructions when first told. I realize my frustration will make her feel bad, however I really feel like she is daydeams and looses focus so fast. If you tell her to do a simple task as go upstairs and change our clothes and bring me my bring don my sandals se will forget what I told her to bring me. Its as if she can oly remember some of the instructions but not all of them.

Name: worried parents
Country: India
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my seven year old son is in class I of a very good old big misionary school. he is not performing well at all in comparison to his peers or even by standards of a common child of his age. he likes drawings, painting watching movies, but he repeats the thing which likes, such as movies, songs, paintings etc. i had consulted doctors and they were prescibing special school saying the child is autistic but i don't find much like that. his likes & dislikes are very prominant.

Name: House appartament
Country: India
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Country: India
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Name: Srinithi
Country: India
Comment:
The author has mentioned : "Ask your doctor for a good brain tonic." I do not understand why to give tonics to children as it might reduce the immune system of the child. Please clarify

Name: lixinxin
Country: U.S.A.
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Isn't it true that the brain can only concentrate for a certain amount of time? so making your kids sit still for an hour will just teach them to daydream.

Name: devarati
Country: India
Comment:
my 8 years daughter reading in 3grade is unable to concentrate she is otherwise intelligent energetic,well mannered .

Name: k.ankit
Country: India
Comment:
my child is in good school but his perfomance is worst my child want to study but he is some what disturbed

Name: B. Bhattacharya
Country: India
Comment:
My daughter is six and half year old and she is studying in class 1 of a very good school. She is the worst performer in her class. She can not concentrate for even 5 minutes. Please advice how to improve her

Name: priya
Country: india
Comment:
my son is 4 years old. he is very intelligent but does not pay attention when we tell him something. or distracts very fast. what is the method to reduce this and increase his attentiveness.

Name: Tiffany
Country: bhutan
Comment:
your the best

Name: Amba
Country: belgium
Comment:
Nada, Very polite comment from you man. Keep it up.

Name: jagendra kumar
Country: india
Comment:
certainly these are very good tips to increase concentration of children, which I did not know. I shall definitely implement with my children.

Name: TaMika
Country: usa
Comment:
I think television is a bad influence on young children's minds, and anyone under the age of 10 should spend as little time as possible watching T.V., and doing something creative to increase the child intellegence.

Name: vs
Country: india
Comment:
In most of the homes,parents are the only reason why children are not showing interest in the studies.For most of the mothers megaserials are more important than their children.Really nowadays children are getting more matured in their childhood itself.Its all because of TV. Parent should allow their children to watch the useful programs which will improve their knowledge.

Name: MJ
Country: puerto rico
Comment:
I believe that if people hide educational facts in TV children will remember what they see and use it in school.

Name: neetu
Country: india
Comment:
my son, he is 6 years old and having a problem of ADHD. He can not concentrate on study for more than 1 hours hardly. I usually take him in the study room with no discration at all. Please advice as a special need how i should handle him while study and what is the right way to teach him.

Name: A student
Country: yemen
Comment:
having the tv on while doing homework is very hard to accomplish. i wonder why it takes me so long to complete a 15 min. assignment. i try not to do homework while watching the tv and i've seen an improvement on my grades.

Name: Nada
Country: usa
Comment:
With all due respect, the writing of both the mother who is a college student and the scholarship student is error-riddled. Fragments, run-on sentences, misspellings -- it's enough to make an English teacher shudder. I heartily RECOMMEND the both of you to find a caring, conscientious tutor. If you are dyslexic, please do try to use a spellchecker at least.

Name: shipra sen
Country: india
Comment:
Certainly every parents desire would be to inculcate the drive to excell in their child . For this the child needs a certain amount of maturity to understand the pros and cons of success and failure in life. Do you think this sense of maturity is dormant in a child which merely needs an awakening or do you think there are children who are not born with this sense at all. What do you recommend for such children. How should one go abount motivating the child who is lacking self confidence and is sherking from responsibily.

Name: A mother too
Country: usa
Comment:
I had several specialists reccomend my daughter watch more television to increase her verbal skills since they lacked quite a bit. They reccomended "as much as possible". When homwork needs to be done turn it off though (that part is my opinion). Who can study with that in the background. I am aslo a college student and I cannot remember anything when I try to study with that TV on.

Name: Anuradha Swaminathan
Country: india
Comment:
Please advice me both my children would like to sit in the same room for their study. They are very much distracted by TV programmes while studying. I scad to stop cable connection also suddenly. They don't sit for more than half an hour a day for study after finishing their home assignments. Please advise.

Name: -
Country: england
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I watch telivision quite alot and am the one of the top in the class and passed a private school test with a scholarship thier not educational channels either. Also my school. You can see the government report in a search engine, type in Winnersh. It not a private one.

Name: Raj
Country: india
Comment:
These days television, is the major distraction a child faces. Its not the a child should be completely stopped from watching television, but he there must be some restriction on the time and also the kind of serial he watches. He should be encouraged to watch more of educative channels like the national geographic channel.

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