let’s unleash your child’s potential.

What is child potential ? 

Each and every child is unique and special. All children are gifted with a unique set of talents and potential, in which they may shine and excel. Every child is distinctly talented and no two children can or should be compared.  They are blessed with their own special individuality. Most often, parents fail to recognise these abilities in their children and push them into something which is not their forte. As parents, we are anxious about the well being of our children. We want the best for our children and desire that they be successful and happy in life. In our anxiousness, we tend to push them into a rat race and we fail to recognise their true potential. In order to help our children be happy and successful we need to embrace their individuality and recognise their abilities.

Children naturally do the things they love to do without prompting, so you should be able to determine their talents by simply observing them for awhile. However, children also naturally want to make their parents happy, so they may keep doing an activity that is pleasing to their parents long after it has stopped being exciting to them. Unfortunately, this can hinder them from discovering their true interests and talents.

Why do we need to search their hidden talents ? 

It is extremely important to identify hidden talents in kids as early as possible; this not only helps from the career perspective but is a great emotional boost as well.

Each person on this earth is born with a specific talent. And in many cases, it is found that, the talent remains dormant, waiting to be discovered and polished. They are unused, not acknowledged and therefore not appreciated.

The problem arises in the course of the development of the career, when children need to choose a certain path, which is different from their inherent field of interest, just due to the very fact that this particular talent has been lying unused and unexplored properly. It is thus very vital from the perspective of the kid that his or her hidden talents are discovered and duly encouraged.

What are the keys to help develop a child’s potential ? 

If you want your child to grow up emotionally strong and become functional and happy adults,  there are variety of strategies and tools one can use. Even so experts agree that the ones that have the greatest impact on a child’s development are: 

• Encouraging their curiosity and allowing them to explore.  

It’s essential to encourage them to explore the world around them and learn more about it. If you do this; your child won’t believe themselves. 

You should give them more autonomy to take control of their own lives as they become older. 

•Establish limits. 

  You have to teach them about emotional intelligence and help them discover their personal responsibility. This means that they should learn that there are consequences when they do something or stop doing something. It’s virtually impossible to protect someone from all the dangers they will encounter in life. Despite this, you can teach them to make good decisions and avoid the ones that could hurt them. 

•Discover their interest and boost them. 

 The educational system should be designed to develop children’s intellectual capabilities. It should also turn them into cultured  people with a strong desire to learn. But unfortunately this is not the case. Because of that it’s your responsibility to educate your child. For the most part, the responsibility falls upon you to cultivate their desires to continue learning. All you have to do is to help them discover the things they are most interested in.

How to help them ? 

•Let your child discover her own interests.  Pay attention the activities she chooses. 

•  Expose your child to a broad spectrum of experiences. They may activate latent talents. 

•  Give your child permission to make mistakes.  If she has to do things perfectly, she’ll never take the risks necessary to discover and develop a gift.

•  Ask questions.  Help your child open up to he wonders of the world by asking intriguing questions: Why is the sky blue?  Find the answers together.

•Plan special family projects.  Shared creativity can awaken and develop new talents.

•  Don’t pressure your child to learn. Encourage, but don’t push.

•  Have high expectations.  But make them realistic.

•Share your work life.  Expose your child to images of success by taking him to work. 

•Don’t limit your child with labels.  They may saddle her with a reputation that doesn’t match her inner gifts.

• Play games together as a family.

•Have a regular family time for reading, listening to music, talking.

•Have reference materials available to give your child access to the world.

• Allow your child to participate in community activities that interest her.

•Don’t criticise or judge the things your child does.   

• Play with your child to show your own sense of playfulness.

•Share your successes as a family.  Talk about good things that happened during the day to enhance self-esteem.

• Provide your child with access to a home, school or public library computer.

•Give your child open-ended playthings. 

• Give your child unstructured time to simply daydream and wonder.

•Encourage your child to think about her future.  

• Introduce your child to interesting and capable people.

•Accept your child as he or she is.

Conclusion 

Interests of children may evolve and change as they grow. Some interests may die down whereas some may grow into great passions. Most successful people have one thing in common, they discover their passions early in life and pursued them. This they could achieve only with the support of their parents. Therefore parents and family play a vital role in harnessing the talent of children and helping them pursue their passions. The influence of parents can either break or build a child’s potential. Hence, if we want our children to reach their full potential we need to understand them and encourage them, instead of trying to force them to do something which is not their forte.

And yes ! 

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin.