Top Picks- All you need to know about raising a focused child

Lina Ashar
3 min readAug 2, 2021

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I am Lina Ashar and I want to jointly explore the power of parenting with you. Join me on my journey to educate our children in unlocking their extraordinary human potential.

How to Improve Your Child’s Attention Span [Parents.con]: If you’re trying to strengthen your child’s focus and concentration, check out these tips for improving their attention span.

6 Ways to Raise a Focused Child [Education.com]: Eating on the run. IM and TV, plus homework. Kids today are growing up in a land of distraction — a noisy, info-cluttered, hyper-mediated world where mental juggling is the norm. But, despite this trend, there are things that you can do to encourage focus in your child’s daily routine.

Tips for Helping Your Child Focus and Concentrate [Public Broadcasting Service]: Concentration is like a muscle that requires regular exercise to strengthen. Some kids are born “stronger” in this area than others, but all kids can learn strategies and engage in practices that help improve their ability to focus and sustain their attention. This is, after all, a very important skill for kids to acquire — school demands that students concentrate for long stretches of time, and as kids get older they have extracurricular activities after school that require even more concentration. Most children are able to concentrate on activities that are fun and intrinsically enjoyable. It’s the ones that are more boring, difficult or just less enjoyable that really challenge their focus. Yet this ability to concentrate and sustain attention on all kinds of tasks is crucially important because it helps kids learn and improve, which leads to self-confidence and positive self-esteem.

Watch the Moonshot Conversations episode to discover ‘The Science of Focus’

12 Most Effective Ways to Improve Your Child’s Concentration [FirstCry Parenting]: As grown-ups, it is easy for us to use different techniques to improve our concentration levels, but it becomes difficult for a child to focus on a task for more than a few minutes. This happens primarily because of their natural exuberance and high curiosity levels. But as they grow older, they will need to focus on their studies and other essential tasks. To help your child in improving his concentration, you can adopt various strategies and see which one works best for him.

5 ways to improve your child’s attention and focus [The Times of India]: Facing trouble in focusing is not only a problem for grown-ups, children are equally affected by it. You might have noticed this yourself several times how your kids' focus shifts from one thing to the other within a few minutes. One moment they would be solving the mathematical equation and then suddenly they would start fidgeting with their pencil. This mostly happens because of their normal enthusiasm and high curiosity levels. However, over time this habit can start to affect their ability to learn things and perform every task. As per a child development expert, a 4- or 5-year-old child should be able to focus on a task for two to five minutes after reaching this age. But this rule, just like any guideline for raising children, is highly influenced by their surroundings. Worry not, there are several ways to improve your child’s concentration level. You can try them and see what works the best for your munchkin.

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Lina Ashar
Lina Ashar

Written by Lina Ashar

Founder of Kangaroo Kids & Billabong High, Lina Ashar started her career as a teacher and today is one of the most renowned educators and edupreneur in India.

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