Science can really be a wonderful gift to awaken children’s minds. We may think that science is simply a subject to be learned at school. But what we forget is that science isn’t limited only to school!

Looking around us, we all are in some way or the other using science in our daily lives. For instance, how our body functions is a part of biology; the pollutants in the air causing pollution is a topic discussed with the help of chemistry.

All in all, science plays an important role in our lives. So why not use science to awaken the minds of kids?

Children by their very nature are curious. They always wonder about everything. The moon and the stars in the sky arouse their curious questions.

Most children show a keen interest in acquiring scientific knowledge early on in life. If we, as parents and guides, teach them properly and answer their questions in a scientific manner, they will eventually learn to be inquisitive and excited about everything they see.

Experiments and building models are just some of the examples which take science out of the books. Science need not be limited to the classroom, but rather at home science activities can go a long way in keeping a child interested in the world around them.

Following are some ways in which science can be used to awaken the minds of children:

1. Science Begins At Home

Like every other good thing that needs to begin at home, including science into your kid’s lives must begin at home itself.

According to The National Science Foundation, parents are their kid’s first science teachers. Science for kids can be taught inside your very home and out in your backyard. All you need to do is to make them aware of it and fill their minds with wonder and curiosity.

2. Science Is All About Observing, Exploring, And Testing

Train your children to go for walks and to observe. Observing is one of the key practices to notice and take in all that nature has to offer you. Take along a magnifying glass and stop to pick up some interesting natural objects along the way such as flowers, a few blades of grass, rocks or stones, and even insects.

Ask your child to look at them with the magnifying glass. You could also help them look up any creature or object on the internet or in a book when you return home and gather more information. Or you could set up a telescope or a pair of binoculars and as you lay out in the night, observe the starry skies. Viewing the sky is an easy way to introduce the study of astronomy.

3. Cooking Is Not Only An Art But Also Science!

Let your child help you cook. There are many processes that happen in the kitchen as you cook.

For instance, boiling water, melting butter, caramelization, baking etc. are some processes that could get your child interested in cooking.

4. Get Sporty  

Sports and hobbies are two other ways in which you could include science into your kid’s lives. If your child is interested in cycling, skateboarding, or rollerblading, explore how the wheels on their vehicle turn. This will make them think and provide you an opportunity to explain it scientifically.

If it’s baseball, talk about pitching and speed. If it’s football, find out why the ball is shaped that way. Dancers can learn about why stretching is important before dancing and about their body condition. Swimming is another activity that will make your children wonder about how a body floats in water, about gravity etc. Thus, they’ll start learning the laws of physics.

5. Build up something

Science and creativity go hand in hand. Spend time with your kid’s building or constructing something – be it playdough or building blocks or even building a periscope or constructing a model of the solar system.

Always be prepared to answer your kid’s curious questions with patience, truth, and wisdom.

6. Making learning fun!

Learning need not be stressful. Rather make their learning more playful and fun. 

You could use experimental toys such as physics gifts, biology gifts, chemistry gifts etc. which would help them not only in learning practically but also to broaden their mindsets. This will help their imagination to grow.

7. Ample Sleep

Do allow your children to get ample sleep every day in order to keep their minds sharp. Sleep deprivation often causes a dull mind and eventually slow performance.

So make sure your children go to bed early enough so that they can wake up on their own in the morning feeling refreshed and rejuvenated. A healthy mind depends on proper sleep and a nutrition-packed diet. A child needs around 10-12 hours of sound sleep at night.  

Conclusion

Make use of all sorts of materials to nurture your child’s imagination. The more they experiment, the more they will grow and the more active and healthy their minds will be.

People can impact you profoundly, positive people positively, negatively people negatively.

I have seen how important it is to surround yourself with people who believe in you, your abilities, and your potential to grow into the person you know you can be.

If you spend major time with negative thinking people who think you’re dumb or stupid, and not good enough, those thoughts somehow get implanted into your brain, on a subconscious level, there is a mental blockade from you growing, and the only way to grow is to let go of these people.

Once you get away from negative thinking people, you start to see clearly, mentally, and their poison leaves your mind, and you feel like you can see again, like you have Awakened, you start to believe in yourself to a greater level, and you wonder to yourself, why was I like this when they were around me?

It is not easy to tell what others think of you necessarily, but one way is to see how you feel around certain people, if you feel empowered, able, faith, and believe in yourself, then they are good signs that these people are good to associate with. Whereas on the other hand, when you are around certain people, you may feel disempowered, unable, fear, and doubt. These are the people you need to get rid of from your life.

It doesn’t matter who the person is, whether they be family, friend, work colleague, and so forth. You have to make sacrifices for success. You will never go to higher places in your life if you surround yourself with people who do not see the greatness within you.

It is of utmost importance to surround yourself with those who believe in you. Do not take this message lightly. Who you spend time with is who you become. Toxic negative thinking people can actually influence who you become and the life that you live.

Once you eliminate the negative toxic people from your life, your life will move to a whole new level. You will never grow with toxic people around you, they lack belief in themselves and they lack belief in you, and they hold themselves back and they hold you back.

So the main message here is that you should never think negatively about others, as you can impact their mind and their life. Always believe in others, but most importantly believe in yourself. What you think of others does reflect the beliefs you hold about yourself.

Many people try to instill their doubts, fears, worries, and limitations upon you because they are cowards, they don’t take action, they don’t try, they don’t do anything  different, but all they do is make assumptions based on nothing, and they expect to fail, how crazy is that, people predict the outcome of failure before they have taken action.

Surround yourself with those who take action, those who believe, those who have faith, those who want more than average, those who make you feel that you too can live your dreams. Life is too valuable to waste time with people who make you feel as if you are not good enough.

Find the ones who do not just see you for who you are but who you can become. Always seek to grow, always push your limits, this is one way to rid yourself of the dead weight, those who are on a lower level mentally will be left behind.

Rise up within so that you can rise up without.

Believe in yourself, and your abilities, never let anyone make you feel like you are not special, gifted, and talented. You have the ability to achieve more than you know. You may not see it now, but I see it, I believe in you.

Let your faith banish the fears that may be clouding your mind and come through to the other side, where there is a life of abundance waiting for you.

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