How to teach new things to your child and support their natural curiosity and desire for learning:
be considerate of their age, don’t expect them to understand everything at first especially if they’re very young
give them comparisons and analogies to things they’ve already experienced! A child wont be able to incorporate new information which relates to nothing they’ve ever seen or experienced
be PATIENT. Every child deserves patience when they’re trying to learn.
offer them knowledge that is interesting and relevant to their interests, something that is useful to them right now! Don’t force information that might be useful 17 years later, that they’re not interested in right now
be sure you’re giving them correct information. say you don’t know if you’re not sure, and go research it together with the child. showing them how to find out something on their own might be a valuable skill to them.
don’t push the topic to the part that you think is most important. give them information they desire. steer them away from evil but indulge their curiosity! let them come to their own conclusions
talk with at least a little bit of passion and wonder when you’re teaching them, they still find this world a miracle, worth of admiration and exploring, do not ruin this for them!
let them test things out on their own even if you know they wont succeed. learning by experience is more valuable than restraining from experimenting just because someone told you that you will fail.
don’t ever tell them they can’t do something. you don’t know. children’s potential is endless. do not be the one to put a concrete end to it.
take interest in their reactions to what they’re learning, do not assume they will learn the same way you did! Take time to figure out what is best way for them, and show them that any way of learning is good and will provide them with all knowledge and skills they need
praise them when they use new information to do something! make sure they feel proud of themselves with every piece of knowledge they know how to utilize in their life.
How to discourage your children from wanting to learn anything, kill their natural desire to learn, take advantage of their inexperience and trust to abuse your authority over them:
yell and scream at them if they don’t listen, understand, or aren’t interested in what you have to say
pay no attention to their development stage and expect their full cooperation with whatever you think they should be interested in, talk down to them and ignore their reactions and interests
mock them for not knowing something, act superior and patronizing for knowing more than they do
attack them with dumb questions like “How old are you? How do you still not know that? Why do you never listen to me when I’m talking?! You should know this already!”
call them stupid, dumb, moron, and other degrading names that will make them feel discouraged from even believing they can learn anything
tell them they’ll never know anything or amount to anything and that they wont ever be able to do or know the things you know and do
mock them for not knowing things you never taught them, put all responsibility of learning on them while you throw disconnected information around that makes no sense to them, not even checking if they understood, expect them to read your mind and know things without ever being told
give them unchecked, wrong, deceitful or threatening information that will stop them from wanting to research more, use their lack of experience to scare them off of learning things that might make them more self-sufficient and independent from your source of knowledge
put them under so much stress and pressure they couldn’t possibly absorb information in that state, then make fun of them for being dumb
give them wrong, unclear, confusing instructions to do something, deny that you said any of that and then accuse them with “You should have known better!”, making sure they have zero ways to actually learn and obtain the correct info
yell at them the second they’re not doing things your way, shout at them for everything they try that it’s going to fail just so you could say “I told you so” at the end, and if they do succeed call it dumb luck and assure them they will fail next time
make fun of their interests, call them stupid and worthless and remind them it will never earn them any money or make anything out of them, call their hobbies and curiosities waste of time and make it look like any interests except yours are dumb and not worth pursuing
fail to acknowledge any knowledge the child has absorbed, and instead focus on making them feel bad for everything they don’t know, pretend it wasn’t your responsibility to teach them, and your failure that they don’t know.
tell them all of this is for their own good, and often excuse your abuse with “WELL HOW ELSE WILL YOU LEARN?!” Pretend there are no other ways. Pretend every single patient and considerate way of learning doesn’t exist, and even if it does, people who use it are morons who are just spoiling their children. Tell your child there’s nothing but abuse worth having.
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