Motivation?! I will tell you nothing new, nothing that you don't know. You look for tools that you already have, instruction books that you have already read millions of times, take off the blindfold and tell me that you don't know how to do it, that it doesn't resonate with you, that you didn't fall for these 5 fingers that every parent has in their hand to motivate their children. children…

1. Get to know your children, become the best observer, but really come on! As parents we tend to confuse between ideal and reality, we have reflected so much on how we want our children to be that we have forgotten to read to them, get to know them, each one of them is unique, unrepeatable, and has different needs, we find ourselves with auditory children who find everything It enters through the verbal channel, the visual ones that are perceptive and kinesiological sponges that need to do, experiment, try and move to learn.
2. Fun, if your child has fun, is motivated, learning and growing in a global way, it will always be meaningful and will be kept in memory of positive experiences to remember as motivational snacks to take out at any time. Stories, imagination, our experiences as children, curiosity, mystery, surprise and magic color the most motivating experiences. In the adult world with what we call maturing, we have lost many tools because we are beings of routines that do not play, are not surprised and short of imagination, so take the strongest sandpaper you can find and remove the rust and find all these characters that live within us otherwise they will never be able to see them.
3. Consistency in yourself, as a model you cannot preach one thing and do another, sow a positive attitude, always at hand with your best smile, recognize your little one's efforts without ever establishing comparisons and giving all the support they need because... two days ago they gave their first steps and now you shout that you want maturity, independence, responsibility, good manners without giving them good models, be self-critical and grow as a person until you become like what you dream for them because you still have time when it comes to the most important thing , make the most important thing the most important thing.
4. Explain the why of things, show the error as an opportunity not as a failure, make him decide, challenge him to participate, to analyze the situations, the problems, the difficulties, the possible improvements he would make in the family dynamics... Talk, talk and then speak, be the best communicator they have ever met to motivate your child.
5. Movement and action. You have to move because movement is demonstrated by walking, walk with your child regardless of the destination, learn to stop at every corner without missing opportunities to share any moment, children in movement are machines of imagination, robots of knowing, tools of exploration and we fight against that entire army by pulling at their arms because we have to reach the destination without enjoying the journey, you look for tools that you have every day just by observing how it moves, how it breathes, how it looks at us and how it creates its copy model of ourselves.

I hope you liked this article to help motivate your child.

Cristina Oroz Bajo