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Teaching your children to read a clock
Teaching your children to read the time at first may seem like a hectic task, but if the correct procedures are taken it can be quite a breeze!
Children normally learn this necessary skill at a certain stage of school, but you can facilitate and make the process much easier if you begin to point out the basic skills associated with ‘clock reading’ from as early as possible.
When teaching children to read the time make it as fun and exciting as possible, be sure not to turn it into an activity that they dread and shy away from. You can build a colorful makeshift clock with vivid and vibrant features, for your kids to get hands and practical with. Also you can let your children relate the time to you using real life scenarios, such as making them tell you what time they’re going to bed or what time they’re going to practice and so on, this helps them to become more familiar with the time and they get a feel of the value of time as well.
Parents don’t give up on your kids when it seems that they’ll never learn to read a clock, it takes time and energy but they will learn, you did, didn’t you? I’m sure it wasn’t easy for your mom or dad either. Teach your children the importance of time overall and also how important it is to work with time and be on time. Take the time out to teach them the time and most importantly take your time don’t rush the process. You can then get then a nice kids clock as a reward for learning.
