Improve Concentration In Kids

By Jasmine Pachnanda

Children must get the concentration in order to study and shine in their career. They need to sit at one place so that they can concentrate on a single thing completely. This can be done repeatedly as a therapy by the parents at home itself to improve their child's concentration.

Most of the kids will experience difficulties in concentrating particularly when they are tired, lazy or over loaded. It is difficult for the parents to get the concentration in their children. Some of the kids have the concentration difficulty due to their physiology or psychology issues. Either they find difficulty in starting the task or they lose the concentration half way, and leave the task half way.

The way the parents bring up the children is directly proportional to the concentration in the kids. The food they eat, the way they talk, and the ethics they develop, everything matters. The reasons for lacking the concentration may be many, but the parents should find out and help their children in getting the concentration in kids. Here are some of the ways through which the concentration in children can improve.

Attend to their physiological needs

Attend to their physiological needs

Usually children will get the concentration if they get enough sleep so, make sure they have enough sleep in the night for at least 8 to 9 hours. Reduce the sugar intake and try to give them healthy food with lots of proteins in it.

Remove distractions at home

Remove distractions at home

People, fighting, hunger; noise etc can distract the kid and spoil the concentration levels. These and other such distractions should be removed to improve the concentrating skills of the kid.

Create mood for concentration

Create mood for concentration

Playing light music and removing any bright florescent lights will increase the concentration. Make the environment silent, peaceful and concentration friendly so that the children will have the mood for it, and get concentration easily.

Activities your kid will focus

Activities your kid will focus

Some children will focus on the hand on activities while some of them will focus on the visual clues. So, figure out the activities that your children focuses and make them do those. These activities will increase the concentration levels in them.

Games

Games

There are some games available for improving memory and concentration of kids. Parents can make the children play these games, and with those the memory as well as the concentration might improve.

Get active

Get active

Instead of making them sit idle, let your children play and be active all the day.

Control the remote

Control the remote

Playing too much with electronic gadgets will also decrease the concentration so; switch them off after a while. When your children will spend too much time on the electronics, they will spend less time in interacting and playing. So try to control the remote and let them play outdoors.

Talk to your child

Talk to your child

If you feel that that your child is not concentrating for no reason, talk to them as this will help to a great extent. Ask what's happening in their life and why they are not able to concentrate.

Avoid multitasking

Avoid multitasking

Doing too many tasks at the same time might not increase the concentration as it becomes difficult to concentrate on a single thing. So, try to avoid the multitasking and allocate specific study time.

Break

Break

Instead of making the kids sit for 3 to 4 hours at a stretch, make them sit for an hour for 3-4 times.

Story first published: Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 16:56 [IST]
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