Time for the hard truth- some parents go about motivating their children all wrong! It is wrong for parents to think that their teenagers wouldn’t care about academics unless they are forced to. After all, no parent can truly force their child to care about academic excellence just because they [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][the parents] try. Studies have shown that most parents [unfortunately] end up discouraging their teens while attempting to encourage them. And this goes to show that something is definitely wrong when parents care too much about their children’s academic progress more than the children do themselves!
In every attempt to motivate teenagers for academic excellence, it’s important for parents to understand the role of the child in academic pursuit; that way, they too can understand their role which is assist and motivate. For instance, it is the primary function of the teenager to study and excel in exams. Somehow they know this very well. But just in case they don’t, it then becomes the parents’ responsibility to motivate and inspire them towards actualizing this goal. It will be needless to motivate or coerce a naturally studious teen just because a parent feels it’s [their] function to do so. It only becomes necessary to encourage, motivate or coerce a child into learning when it’s apparent such a child had failed to realize what a responsibility this is for him/her.
Now let’s be clear; sometime it’s definitely necessary for parents to coerce their children into hard work. Mete out appropriate consequences to your child to let [them] understand the result of [their] poor academic choices. And while doing this, it is imperative never to confuse it with the thought that you will ultimately make the child care about his Maths homework simply because you care about it. Consequences aren’t supposed to create motivation; instead parents are supposed to mete out consequences because they are doing their job as a parents. In all, the main point is that nobody can motivate another person to actually care- not even parents to their children! As such, parents’ roles are to inspire and influence.
It’s natural for parents to feel as though they are directly responsible for their children’s outcome in life. The truth however is that this is hardly the case because [ultimately] every child is mostly responsible [their] choices and consequences outcome in life. Unfortunately, because most parents feel they alone determine the outcome of their children, they tend to step in with overbearing influence, dictating and controlling, sometime even choosing which University Course their kids get to study. This shouldn’t be the case
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