When their child has no good results in school, most parents (and teachers) react in the same way. But beware, that would not have the expected effect, and it would even be counterproductive!
Faced with a child who has difficulties in a matter (or more), both parents and the teaching team tend to react in the same way. Since he has no good notes, you have to strengthen your learning in this matter, giving additional exercises, revising longer, or even taking private lessons. A good way to accompany them and anticipate any academic difficulties. But according to a Spanish expert, it would not be the best way to do.
According to Jordi Segués, Spanish expert in corporate marketing, “most parents are wrong”. Indeed, in addition to creating strong pressure on the child according to the methods used, we forget the principal: certainly, the student does not excel in this material, but perhaps that he is very good in one or more others! Thus, more and more voices are calling for highlighting the strengths of children rather than focusing on the things they succeed less well. This is why Jordi Segués explains in an extract from Podcast broadcast on Tikttok: “If your child gets a 3 in history and a 10 (The Spanish system uses notes out of 10, editor’s note) In mathematics, what to do? Well, you have to find him a private professor of mathematics, no history “.
According to his reasoning, it is better to encourage students to continue their efforts in the matters in which they already succeed, and therefore which probably interest him and/or for which they have good capacities, rather than forcing them to work more on a subject which interests them less. “Your child has potential in mathematics. If he has obtained this note, imagine if you encourage what fascinates him and what he naturally excels”indicates Jordi Segués, before emphasizing: “However, most parents are so obsessed with the idea that instead of developing his talent, they prefer that he also gets a good note in history. What is the story for if they don’t like it? And if we don’t like something, we don’t remember. It’s useless, and we don’t do it well. Being in this way is the perfect recipe for a generation that is good for anything.”
For him, it is clear that it is necessary to respect the interests of the child and encourage his talents and his interests. And, perhaps over time, the child will pay more attention to the subjects and the materials in which he was less good before. This approach therefore invites you to change the academic difficulties. What if the key to success went above all through the valuation of talents rather than by correction of weaknesses?
