Comments on: Inspiring the Unmotivated ADHD Child to Learn

By: Niqi

Niqi — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 03:49:51 +0000

I used those techniques when I homeschooled my girls. One favourite was to pretend to go shopping with their toys with math problems or trivia as the cost per item. This later changed to saving up for and budgeting towards items they wanted. Baking, crafts, woodworking, etc. Any hands-on activity can be used to spark more interest. Passion based learning really does inspire. Find the tiny spark of interest in the boring subjects if you must. Brainstorm together.

Or make finishing the boring work the condition for a treat like getting to watch TV. Creating this sense of urgency can sometimes help.

Making games with timers often helped. Competition with self was always encouraged. Beating their own high scores gave a sense of pride too.

By: Selena Robinson

Selena Robinson — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:00:50 +0000

In reply to Nita.

For someone who doesn’t know much about unschooling, you’re sure doing a great job of using it! 🙂 That’s exactly what it is – a focus on learning through life, rather than from textbooks. I’m not an unschooler, because I feel that my kids need to know how to read a book, answer some questions, write a report, and so on, especially if they plan to go to college or work in an office. But I use a lot of its concepts in our lesson plans.

Another advantage of homeschooling. 🙂

By: Nita

Nita — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 16:05:24 +0000

Those are some great concepts! I don’t know much about ‘unschooling’ so introduction of topics regarding it is helpful. Thanks for sharing it. I tend to do ‘movie’ or ‘project’ days for my kids when there is a new subject or stale subject they don’t like. I find with kids if you introduce them to a subject in a different way they get more interested in it. We have two history lessons that are completely movie based. We all lay in bed, watch and discuss the movie. Sometimes go as far as visit a place that is the common theme in a lesson (we don’t do this as much since neither my husband or I can’t always get off work to take them on weekdays).