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Children who play with parents do better at school

Children who play with parents do better at school

A study published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine of the Journal of the American Medical Association proves that parent-child play helps children's development and influences school performance.

Researchers also concluded that children from low-income families have lower school performance, and parent-child interactions that can be made during visits to the pediatrician assist in development in the first year of life.

For this study, the researchers grouped 675 pairs of mothers and infants who received pediatric care at the Bellevue Hospital Center in New York . They were randomly divided into three groups: 225 pairs for the control group, 225 for the Video Interaction Project (PVI) and 225 for the Building Blocks Project (PBC).

In the PVI program, mothers and their babies they had fifteen sessions of 30 to 45 minutes with a child development specialist on the same day as the usual consultations.

During this visit, mother and son practiced activities such as games, reading books and simulating daily routines. Everything was videotaped and assisted by the couple and the specialist in order to identify the child's difficulties and reinforce care in these aspects.

In the Building Blocks project, materials such as toys and books are sent to the family monthly, along with educational pamphlets explaining to parents how they should act in the face of certain difficulties and stipulated reading goals. The control group received only standard pediatric care.

In the first report, the researchers found that both PVI and PBC families had increased parent-child interactions with games and reading activities . In addition, families who participated in IVP increased teaching activities and verbal interactions during daily routines.

In the second report, researchers also found that the Video Interaction Project decreased the time children spent in front of television .

Researchers believe that the results have been better because brain thinking and development is faster in childhood, and the use of innovative strategies such as shooting and targeting have also contributed to the success of the research

Research shows that new pediatric methods can play an important role in solving critical problems such as the large difference in level of schooling among low- and high-income children.

Help your child pass a year at school

What is the best way to encourage children to study? What to do so they start to see the lessons more as a pleasure and less as a must? To answer these and other questions, My Life spoke with Vera Werneck, a teacher at the Padre Vieira College.

Change the tactic: It is very common for parents to make blackmail of the type "if you do not pass the year will travel on vacation. "

However, the educator says that when parents focus on punishment or pleasure, the child ends up confusing the real meaning of education. They believe they are studying to accomplish their parents' wishes and not to achieve achievements in the future.

Eliminate extra activities: When the risk of recovery or repetition exists, you need to make the child realize that he needs to return all the attention to the study . "Swimming, football and dance classes, for example, are activities that should be left to the background." The important thing is that the child can focus on the study, "says Vera.Stretch times:

Leaving your child all day bent over the notebooks is not the best solution either. "They need rules and organization, the best option is to set a study schedule, which can vary from half an hour to three hours a day, depending on the situation and the amount of material to study," explains the teacher. Praise good grades:

Contrary to material rewards, praise must be involved with the education of the little ones. "Praising and explaining the importance of knowing how to read, for example, can help - a lot." These are attitudes that encourage children to be more willing to study and learn more, "explains Vera Werneck. Studying together with other classmates can help your child get a taste for education. "Calling class friends can be an important step for children who are at risk of repeating the year, as they help themselves and can learn more easily," he explains.


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