September 4th, 2009 by El Ed Mom

One difficulty parents and teachers face in teaching basic skill areas is making the learning real. While school is ideally a preparation for adult life, children soon begin to question the reasons for learning certain skills if they can see no relationship between those skills and their everyday lives. In many instances, learning a useful skill becomes, for the child, nothing more than practicing many similar exercises in a book or for homework. Therefore, the real applications of “school subjects” are very helpful in showing the child that there are reasons to learn many things in school, and that there are real uses for those skills.

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