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“3 Effective Places to Take Your Unmotivated Child Instead of Yelling at Them”

According to experts, forcing or begging a child to study is not an effective method. Instead, parents should allow children to develop their own awareness of the benefits of learning for themselves.

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5 February, 2024

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The principal of Thanh Hoa University (China) once gave advice: “If children are bored with studying, unwilling to study, take them to three places that will be more effective than scolding them.”

1. Take children to the streets at 3 or 4 am

This is the time when almost the whole world is deeply immersed in sleep, however, there are still many people who have to wake up very early to make a living, earn a living, or there are those who can only finish their work and go home at that time.

When stepping out onto the streets at 3 to 4 am, we often come across situations such as:

– 3:30 am: The truck driver is tired and takes the opportunity to transport concrete and steel on the streets.

– 4 am: The pho seller is hurrying to prepare a pot of broth to serve breakfast for customers.

– 4:30 am: The exhausted doctor has just completed a continuous 12-hour surgery, dragging his tired body out of the hospital gate.

– 5 am: The sanitation workers have started going down the street to clean up.

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When children witness these scenes, they will realize that when they complain about studying, there are always people who are more tired than them, a hundred times more tired. From there, they will have more motivation to study hard.

2. Take children to train stations and airports

When children don’t want to study, take them to train stations and airports to experience. At train stations, children can feel the tiredness of life. This is a crowded place with many people from different backgrounds, mostly people from the middle class and below.

They are in a hurry, carrying big and small bags, with waiting faces. This place is hot, smoky, with the faint smell of sweat…

At airports, children will see a contrasting scene: People moving in the airport are mostly educated, wealthy, and well-dressed. The scene at the airport is also rarely crowded, pushing, or the smell of sweaty clothes.

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People who are better off will travel by plane, and vice versa. Although means of transportation cannot prove or measure a person’s success, let children see and feel to draw their own perspectives.

Which one do children want to become among them, want to be present at train stations or airports? The decision is for the children. They will think and know what they need to do.

Encourage children to study hard, teach them that their current efforts will help them have a better life in the future.

Take children to poor mountainous areas

Children born in mountainous areas often lack material conditions: No good food, no decent clothes, no internet, no means of transportation to school… After work, they have to help their parents take care of cattle, cultivate grass, climb mountains and cross streams…

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But children in poor mountainous areas will never complain, because they know that studying is the only way to escape poverty and change their own destiny.

Therefore, if possible, parents should take their children to impoverished highland areas, let them come into contact and make friends with these hardworking children. At the same time, explain to the children that although they are poor, they still study and work hard. Then compare it to the abundant living conditions that they currently have.

And finally, parents should teach their children that it takes 4 years for a bamboo tree to grow 3 cm, but from the 5th year, it has grown rapidly at a rate of 30 cm per day, and it takes only 6 weeks to grow to 15 meters.

In fact, 4 years ago, the bamboo roots had extended hundreds of square meters into the ground.