Use 'PCP Technique' to Accelerate Learning of Your Children

^{Use
“PCP Technique” To Accelerate Learning

Of Your Children}

By B. K. Narayan
Author, Success Mindware^TM

^{Can every child learn fast?

Yes, all normal children can learn fast and become brilliant persons.
Because every normal child is in possession of a perfect brain.

Your child is in possession of a perfect brain if it has learned to walk,
talk and play as all normal children do. Because the skills of walking,
talking and playing are so complicated and complex that only children with
a perfect brain can learn them. You know that children whose brain is not
normal need special training to learn those skills.

The most important secret behind fast learning

Recall how your child learned to walk, talk and play.

His efforts to walk and talk were praised, applauded, kissed, stroked,
encouraged and the child was shown, demonstrated vividly how to do these
activities better. When the child faltered and fell, when the child
uttered meaningless words, you did not criticize. Instead, you enjoyed
those mistakes and laughed with your child. You too might have acted like
your child!

In short, learning was made a playful activity—with lot of love!

This is the biggest secret that can accelerate learning of your children
and make them brilliant persons. Just use your creative thinking and make
them love what they have to learn.

If you provide loving atmosphere while your child is trying to learn to
read, write or while learning any topic, your child will be able to master
those skills faster and better.

However, except in rare cases, this doesn’t happen. Both parents and
teachers become impatient and start to criticize and punish when children
make mistakes. This creates confusion, fear, hate, distaste in children
towards learning, school, and even parents or teachers.

Use PCP technique to bring out the genius in your child.

Children learn everything by trial and error. By doing a lot of mistakes.
Learning can be accelerated by ignoring mistakes and praising correct
actions.

But some mistakes need to be criticized and corrected. This can be done
better by using a sandwich of PCP—praise-criticism-praise, instead of
usual punishment or criticism.

Criticism brings better result if it is used after praising some good
qualities. That means, you have to find something good in every mistake.
Let me give an example of using PCP.

Your child has written the spelling of the word ENGLISH as ENGLESH.

Now instead of yelling at your child you can say, “Good, you have scored 9
out of 10, as you have written six letters out of seven correctly!
(Praise.)

But if you had written ‘I’ instead of ‘E’ you could have scored 10 out of
10. Practice writing correct spelling 2-3 times, then you can always write
this word correctly in future.” (Criticism.)

Now when your children write the word 2-3 times correctly, then praise
again. “That’s good. Now you have learnt the correct spelling.”

However, what if in future your child writes the same word incorrectly?
Use the same technique.

Say, “You again scored only 9!” And ask your child gently to write that
word more number of times, preferably, this time in some bright colours.

You can help your children to do still better, if you offer simple rewards
at every small improvement. Aiming for small improvements is better than
imposing a big improvement which may turn into a big failure.

You can solve other problems of your son or daughter by using similar
strategy. For example, some children find mathematics difficult. Some find
English difficult. Reason for difficulty in both the subjects is nearly
the same. Lack of understanding the basic steps and principles and less
practice of these.

Slow learning and poor performance are just bad habits which can be
undone. And your son or daughter is not responsible for acquiring these
bad habits. Parent, teachers and the environment is fully responsible for
this unwanted result.

Because the child was not directed properly in the beginning. And no good
models were set before him/her for better learning.

Think about this great quote…

"A child's education should begin at least one

hundred years before he is born."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

That is, parents need to form good habits and demonstrate before their
children. Children don’t do as they are told, they do what parents do. So
start with using PCP technique to motivate children to quickly master good
habits, learn useful skills and make better grades.

Start using PCP technique today and make this a habit. Praise more and
criticize less or still better, ignore mistakes and praise whatever little
good in every situation. Within a short time you will see big improvement
in your children’s progress.}

^{As a bonus, you will have loving
relation with your children.}

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About author: B. K. Narayan is a successful parent, author, Education and Personal Success Consultant. He has been studying and researching in the field of self improvement and Mind Training since 1968. He has conducted many training programs for parents and students in schools since 1993.

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