How to Spot and Nurture Your Kid Best Talent?

• Post Time - 2019-12-18 11:11:48

In this article I will try to put clear and easy steps a parent should take to identify his or her kid's most favourite talent and that thing he excels most.

First I would like to tell you that, besides effort, parenting requires dedication and much time commitment. Meaning, that a parent should give a sufficient part of his time to nurturing his kid's personality and skills and provide the medium relevant and needed for that, such as camps or specialised daycare.

Secondly, we shouldn't depend much on our kids for knowing what's the thing they're good at, but we can deffinitely rely on their choices for giving us clue. For example, kids like to practice the thing they do best, as it makes them feel strong, special and victorious. Similarly, they liek to spend time doing the thing they like most. So putting these two simple facts together, we can have a slight idea about our kids talents.

Also we might, as we deal with our kids, listen to their teachers, and watch them behaving and acting in different environment, we can get to know much about theyr personal and soft skills, which will equally help up guide them to activities that would best fit their qualities and skills. To elaborate, some kids like to engage in activities that involves team work, others don't. Some children like to take part in activities that require thinking and can be a little bit challenging, such as puzzles, others like those activities that requires endurance and long engagement, such as building the longest and biggest towers with blocks.

Here are some clear advices that will help you best identify your kid's best talent and hobbies.

1- Watch them playing and acting in divverent environments, and dont be shy to ask their teachers for their part of realisation.

2- Provide choices of activities and watch them select those that fit them best or those they enjoy best.

3- Also provide guidance, only when needed and when they ask for help.

4- Let them watch people or other kids doing or developing they very same activities they like, for this will help make up their mind whether this activity is really the best thing they enjoy doing.

5- Always provide support and the tools they need to nurture this skill or the other.

6- Hail and praise the slightest development they achieve in whatever activity they engage in.

7- Don't make them feal changing their mind at any point, such as throwing away a particular toy they once liked so much, or changing a kind of sport they once joined and practiced.

8- Make them know that your love for them is unconditional, whether they have a talent or not, changed it or sticked to it, became successful or not.

Kids always need help, even in realising they're most distinctive talents. So do provide them with they help they need, but dont try to force them into doing or not doing anything, just provide the tools and guidance.

Maha Youssuf

Mama's Guides Editor and Managing Director.