How to encourage your children to have a liking for science
Children are born with attributes to experiment with new things, seek answers to endless questions though some may sound silly to us. They are always curious about every new thing they may have seen or heard. Kids tend to pick-up everything neat the fastest pace, be it a word, a thing or anything more. They have the nature to show genuine interest in the world around them. You may be amazed to read but this is basically what scientists even do!
But what happens after they join the school to the extent that they lose their interest in science? The obvious guess would be that as they grow up, they tend to see science in a bookish language way too different than that which they may have heard about. Majority of children go to school and hate everything about it, including the science tasks they so readily undertook as toddlers. Everything begins to be complicated, extra-boring, and completely out of touch with their lives. If you as a parent try to recollect, then at one point, you too probably thought that most science projects at school were unnecessarily tiresome, boring or probably a pain in the throat.
We’ve got you some tips on how you as a parent can encourage our kids to be full of wonder, curiosity, inquisitiveness, motivation to find out how things work and why, and to appreciate the amazing complexity of our ever growing, ever evolving world because of the term “SCIENCE” !
Make science a regular part of your activities at home
Parents don’t need to be rocket scientists. All you have to do is to share simple science activities or theories that run in practicality on a daily basis. Parents can teach them on simple kitchen processes like fermentation, sound travel, light travel, various energies / power etc.
Explore Together
If you can’t find anything around, consider exploring new things together around you outdoors, read books together or find the simplest ways to do experiments on the internet. Exploring together would build extra-confidence in your child when you are paying equal interest. For example you can visit a small scale industry that makes jaggery, chocolates or maybe even ice-creams.
Take Field Trips
Outings to different places like science-museums, aquariums, botanical gardens, zoos, and state or national parks can also bring scientific principles to life. However, remember while exploring at such places, be patient to answer your child’s curiosity, talk about what interests him or her in seeing.
Encourage scientific talks and thoughts
Let your child build his/her child’s scientific thinking skills by engaging them in activities where they are observing, analysing, erupting all the curiosity from within. Keep yourself engaged in asking kids questions about scientific topics. Don’t forget! Science is the process of asking questions about the world and thinking of more logical and reasonable answers. To help your children start this path journey and enjoy all the intelligence, creativity that it involves, provide them with questions, answers to their questions instead of turning them off thinking it may be silly to hear. This will surely get them to develop their own answers and help them love the process of learning that is so important in science. Keep stimulating their curiosity, answering their inquisitivity and trust they’ll naturally fall in place to love science.
Try these methods with your children and do share with us your experiences!
But what happens after they join the school to the extent that they lose their interest in science? The obvious guess would be that as they grow up, they tend to see science in a bookish language way too different than that which they may have heard about. Majority of children go to school and hate everything about it, including the science tasks they so readily undertook as toddlers. Everything begins to be complicated, extra-boring, and completely out of touch with their lives. If you as a parent try to recollect, then at one point, you too probably thought that most science projects at school were unnecessarily tiresome, boring or probably a pain in the throat.
We’ve got you some tips on how you as a parent can encourage our kids to be full of wonder, curiosity, inquisitiveness, motivation to find out how things work and why, and to appreciate the amazing complexity of our ever growing, ever evolving world because of the term “SCIENCE” !
Make science a regular part of your activities at home
Parents don’t need to be rocket scientists. All you have to do is to share simple science activities or theories that run in practicality on a daily basis. Parents can teach them on simple kitchen processes like fermentation, sound travel, light travel, various energies / power etc.
Explore Together
If you can’t find anything around, consider exploring new things together around you outdoors, read books together or find the simplest ways to do experiments on the internet. Exploring together would build extra-confidence in your child when you are paying equal interest. For example you can visit a small scale industry that makes jaggery, chocolates or maybe even ice-creams.
Take Field Trips
Outings to different places like science-museums, aquariums, botanical gardens, zoos, and state or national parks can also bring scientific principles to life. However, remember while exploring at such places, be patient to answer your child’s curiosity, talk about what interests him or her in seeing.
Encourage scientific talks and thoughts
Let your child build his/her child’s scientific thinking skills by engaging them in activities where they are observing, analysing, erupting all the curiosity from within. Keep yourself engaged in asking kids questions about scientific topics. Don’t forget! Science is the process of asking questions about the world and thinking of more logical and reasonable answers. To help your children start this path journey and enjoy all the intelligence, creativity that it involves, provide them with questions, answers to their questions instead of turning them off thinking it may be silly to hear. This will surely get them to develop their own answers and help them love the process of learning that is so important in science. Keep stimulating their curiosity, answering their inquisitivity and trust they’ll naturally fall in place to love science.
Try these methods with your children and do share with us your experiences!