Make learning interesting for your child.

There's a whole wide world out there.



Take your child down the road.


To the fish and water creatures in the stream that winds through the land.


With its life-sustaining vegetation and wondrous animals such a sight to behold.

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In yesterday’s posting, I beseech everyone to give some time to the wonders of nature. Yes, show interest in the world around us with enthusiasm. When parents show enthusiasm, the enthusiasm can overflow onto the children, resulting in children being interested in their world.

As I have so often said, the world is our audio visual aids (AVA). Knowledge of their surroundings is always possible when we take children on an appreciation trip.
Look at the flowers and the fruits of the cannon-ball tree, for example. Use the opportunity to talk about size, colours and shapes. Feel and touch the fruits. Know the fruit’s textures. Is the fruit smooth, rough, hairy or prickly?

Wonder at the beauty and fragrance of the big flowers and the unique fruits. Use contrast to direct them to the different fragrances in flowers, on mummy and other women, the perfumes and so on. Words such as strong, weak, pungent, enticing, revolting and whatever adjectives the parents can think of which could be used, doing a revision of words the children has learnt. Make it a fun and ego thing. See how many words each one can think of.

Direct their attention to the purpose of such fragrance in flowers. Why are different flowers having different smells? What insects do they hope to attract?
Tell them what real cannon-balls are. Boom! The metal balls shoot out towards the enemy at sea or on land. Are the real cannon-balls and the fruit balls of the same colour? Tell them stories. Tell them about cannons. Children love listening to stories.

From interest about the tree, depending upon their age and acquaintance with the computer, parents can either introduce the child to the fantastic amount of knowledge in the internet or teach the child how to search the net for information. .Thus, books and magazines are not the only places for information from other people’s knowledge.

So, from stories in books and magazines, the childen can progress to the computer and the internet through which our children can avail themselves of knowledge from all the four corners of the world.

And who knows? Such an introduction to plants could be the first step into the world of botany for a possible world renown botanist.

Of course, we do not limit ourselves to just botany. The whole world is there for us. Explore it and marvel at God’s creation. It can be the ignition of a passion for some kind of expertise. Who knows? Just be prepared for what comes.