Many parents, having listened to complaints from their schoolchildren, complain about the amount of teaching material that is overwhelming for a child’s fragile mind, the “piles” of handwritten text and the extra burden that modern education places on their children. Therefore, they are looking for all sorts of opportunities to at least slightly alleviate the difficult school days of their offspring.
If you also want to help your child in his difficult task, then show him 10 simple tricks that can greatly facilitate the learning process.
10. Underline text
It is no secret that most schoolchildren are very susceptible to all kinds of visual effects and decorations. For example, they like to decorate the covers of notebooks and diaries with stickers, use unusual bookmarks and, of course, highlight text with catchy colors. To please your child with an unusual life hack that can make the abstract filling process more interesting, just make a V-shaped recess on the writing surface of the marker. Thus, two even parallel lines will appear on the segment of the selected text - the practically embodied Word function!
9. Invisible cheat sheet
We all know from school that writing off is not good. However, there are such responsible situations when a little clue becomes practically vital. Despite the development of technology, many students still use the "grandfather" handwritten cheat sheets, which can be noticed by any more or less attentive teacher.
Well, if you understand that at this stage your child cannot do without such “helpers,” then just help him at least not get caught. To make a reliable invisible cheat sheet is not difficult at all - just write the desired text on the adhesive tape and lower it into the water.
8. If suddenly there is no compass
A compass is a subject that is needed in classes by no means every day, because of which often a child forgets it at home. Therefore, tell your child that if he needs to draw a circle, but he does not have a compass, then this problem can be solved with the help of ordinary paper clips. Even a primary school student will cope with this task, in addition, there is no risk of injury, which happens when using a metal compass.
7. Natural corrector
If a child, doing homework, hesitated, and selected the wrong part of the text, then you can fix this situation with ordinary lemon juice. Citric acid neutralizes dye particles and does not damage paper.
6. Tick box
Did you begin to notice that your child has become a little messy? In his briefcase, between the pages in books and notebooks, are pencil shavings in a pencil case? This is due to the fact that during the lesson he grinds up pencils, and during the break he forgets to bring the chips to the bin. You can scold him and endlessly explain to him how tidiness is important for a student, but the experience of millions of parents shows that this will only upset your nerves, and the result will most likely be zero.
It is much easier to resort to one simple school trick: so that the pencil shavings do not scatter in all directions and do not accumulate later in your child’s personal belongings, just advise him to use a tic tac box as a container for this unfortunate shavings. It is very convenient and simple.
5. Rainbow Highlighter
Modern children practically from the cradle learn to control a variety of gadgets sometimes even before they learn about the existence of the alphabet. A variety of text editors for Windows or Android offer the user many interesting text formatting tools that help to make, for example, the process of writing an essay or some creative work more interesting for a student. Children are fed up with the technical capabilities of electronic devices to such an extent that the good old pen, pencil and notebook seem terribly boring to them.
To diversify the process of writing abstracts, you can create a rainbow highlighter with your own problems! To do this, simply bring the tips of two markers of different colors to each other and you will see what happens!
4. Bookmark
A bookmark for books is simply an irreplaceable thing for any student. Now you can find bookmarks of various shapes and types. The most popular are the good old paper bookmarks, but they have one significant drawback - their service life is not very long, because they are torn and very quickly lost. So that your child always knows on which page he finished reading the book, just help him make a bookmark of a simple paper clip and stationery gum.
3. Crib in the eraser
We all know from school that cribs are bad. But who has never in his life resorted to this unfair way to find out the necessary information at the most crucial moment? In addition, psychologists are sure that when writing cribs, a child involuntarily remembers a significant part of the text, which he transfers to a small piece of paper. In addition, sitting on an exam or a control student will feel much less excitement if he remains confident that in extreme cases he will have the opportunity to spy. Therefore, you can advise him to hide the cheat sheet in the eraser.
2. The blade from the sharpener
If the pencil sharpener used by your child breaks down, then do not rush to lower it into the bin. The sharpener blade will help to quickly and evenly cut off any adhesive tape. A significant plus of this device is that it is not very sharp, so the risk of injury to your child when using this tool is minimized.
1. If the pen does not write
This is a simple and highly effective way to extend the life of a simple ballpoint pen. If she doesn’t write, but apparently there is still ink in it, then you can try to heat its tip. The experience of millions of schoolchildren proves that this method works.