What’s the best way to keep your child inspired to learn? Help them learn to motivate themselves! Raise a self-motivated youngster with this advice.

Point to the Future

Your child may feel more motivated to learn something if he or she understands how it will be important later. Tell them about ways you use school subjects like math and writing at work. You might explain how you count the money and compare it to sales receipts. Or show them advertisements that you helped to write or design.

Move on from Mistakes

There are two ways to react to mistakes: Feel discouraged, or get motivated. Encourage your child to look at a mistake as an opportunity to succeed next time. If he or she made careless errors on a report, for example, they could proofread papers more carefully in the future.

Celebrate Hard Work

Have your youngster find natural motivators when they are faced with a big job. For instance, they may plan to read a new mystery they have been looking forward to after finishing a challenging book for school, or you might let them organize a fun family activity that’s related to their project.