Motivate Your Children for Their Performance
Motivate Your Children for Their Performance
By Dickson Tumuramye
Our children have come to the end
of their first term. We congratulate them upon successful completion of their term.
We can now rise up our hands to bless name of the Lord.
Children need to be appreciated
for the far they have come. I know we try hard to put things they want in place
which sometimes, it is costly and there are many other issues that demand for
money. Someone may say what is Dickson talking about? I have tried to provide
fees and scholastic materials for these children; I now go on to buy them gifts
for just end of first term exams? Yes, it is important.
They have also done their best to
make sure that they read hard and s/he did not disappoint you. They deserve to
be celebrated.
Others could have performed better at school in other areas.
These too deserve to be appreciated. The reason for appreciation is to spur them
remain focused and hard working. As you do this every term, I trust there will
always be an improvement in different things as they will be working hard to
maintain the grade unless they lose out on the gifts next time.
It is a way that we motivate our
children to work hard. Doing well in class does not necessary mean I should be
the first every term. There could be a child who has been performing averagely,
but this time, there is a great improvement. The child has shifted from a bad position
to a better one. The gifts should be given on merit. There are those who may
have not improved in their performance or they could have even done worse than
last time, as a way to motivate him/her, it is also good to give her a small
gift and make him/her know that if he/she improves, he/she will earn
him/herself a big one next time. We sometimes only focus on the position and
forget about the average mark, improvement in certain subjects etc. All these
matter a lot if you have been consistently following the child’s performance.
Appreciation is to instill a
spirit of hard work in this child and to help them know that for one to get
something good, you have to work for it. There is nothing for nothing. We all
know that one by one makes a bundle. As
this child sees your commitment to care for him/her irrespective of his/her
performance, he/she will be motivated to challenge you next time. Therefore
have different incentives for different reasons but let all your children at
the end of the day feel appreciated for the little they have achieved. An individual's motivation may
be inspired by events or others.
The gifts could range from best
performers, creativity, hard work at home/doing chores, cleanliness, submission,
care for others at home, time keeping etc.
After all, it’s not only excellent academic performance that determines
one’s success in future. What is more important in your child’s life is for you
to recognize his/her area of interest, talents and abilities beyond academia
and concentrate on that to help your child alongside education to achieve
his/her dreams.
As you reward your children, put
into consideration that each child is unique and talented differently. They all
deserve rewards according to the measure of their efforts to improve in their
areas of interest.
The writer is a child advocate and a parenting coach, Kampala, Uganda.
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