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Let's Teach Enthusiasm
I heard this quote by Thomas Edison this past week that said: "When a man dies if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value". The truth is, we can pass on wisdom and ethics to our children, but inventor Thomas Edison believed that these were surpassed by enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is what drives people to learn and succeed. Parents- no other generation has had to cope with this ever-increasing funnel of information and improved technology has led to increasingly larger textbooks and more extensive curricula. We can help them resist the poll of immediate pleasures of social media and video games by increasing positive connections in their life.
We do know from neuroscience research that the brain puts in greater effort when engaged by curiosity, interest, and expectation of positive experiences the key in this process is identifying what your children want to learn about, rather than what they have to learn about. An example would be, we created memories with our children of regular trips, whether they were short getaways or long vacations, whatever our budget would allow for that year. The point is to activate their memory of family, camping trips will link in their minds new learning about the settlers, traveling across the country and covered wagons when your
children want to remember facts, they will recall that camping trip.
Connect their brains to the topics they’re going to be staying about at school. After my husband and I owned our own businesses, we would tell our children all the time you can’t teach passion. Let’s choose to teach enthusiasm to this next generation, for God first, and then for all else that they do!
You can find Nellie at: https://avodahfamilycoaching.com
Listen to more mom podcasts: https://raisingkidsonyourknees.org/podcast
Flying Arrow Productions
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By Nellie WestpyI heard this quote by Thomas Edison this past week that said: "When a man dies if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value". The truth is, we can pass on wisdom and ethics to our children, but inventor Thomas Edison believed that these were surpassed by enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is what drives people to learn and succeed. Parents- no other generation has had to cope with this ever-increasing funnel of information and improved technology has led to increasingly larger textbooks and more extensive curricula. We can help them resist the poll of immediate pleasures of social media and video games by increasing positive connections in their life.
We do know from neuroscience research that the brain puts in greater effort when engaged by curiosity, interest, and expectation of positive experiences the key in this process is identifying what your children want to learn about, rather than what they have to learn about. An example would be, we created memories with our children of regular trips, whether they were short getaways or long vacations, whatever our budget would allow for that year. The point is to activate their memory of family, camping trips will link in their minds new learning about the settlers, traveling across the country and covered wagons when your
children want to remember facts, they will recall that camping trip.
Connect their brains to the topics they’re going to be staying about at school. After my husband and I owned our own businesses, we would tell our children all the time you can’t teach passion. Let’s choose to teach enthusiasm to this next generation, for God first, and then for all else that they do!
You can find Nellie at: https://avodahfamilycoaching.com
Listen to more mom podcasts: https://raisingkidsonyourknees.org/podcast
Flying Arrow Productions