Due to the fact that every person is an active living being, he has an innate motivation - a desire to act, a natural curiosity. As an example, you can bring an infant who takes with interest all the objects that come under his hand and puts it into his mouth, and thus he knows the world.
This suggests that motivation is innate, and the motivation associated with the target setting (from about three years of age) is partly the result of learning: first the child is influenced by the parents, then the school. The directing function of motivation largely depends on the environment. Amazons, raise their children in a completely different direction than the Europeans. For example, it is important for a small Indian to learn how to swim and know poisonous plants, and our children are hammered into the head of what dangers await them, for example, at home or on the street.
Ways of motivation
Parents should encourage, not force children to act! In fact, every child himself finds a direction for their activities, however parents can manage this process, offering him to do something interesting and exciting. Thus, parents should use the child's natural curiosity, his desire to learn something and encourage the child to act! There are two ways to get a child to do anything.
The first
It is deliberate to create a shortage of something (something to take away, hide, hide, limit). It does not have to mean something bad. The child's actions are always limited, but at the same time parents show by their example how these boundaries can be crossed. It must be said that psychologists give this rather harsh formulation, if you take away food from your child, you will prompt him to take it himself from the refrigerator. This motivation is also related to the desire for results, which the child is partly innate, and which parents can strengthen with their exact actions, for example, organizing sports competitions between parents and children, brothers and sisters, their child and his friends. In addition, parents should show the child how he can go around the conventional boundaries, for example, so that he independently solves homework or learn to play on any musical instrument.
The second very important means of motivation is praise. Children, whose parents often praise them for the results achieved, usually show a greater desire to learn and achieve something, and frequent reproaches in general can destroy the child's desire to do something. It is very important that the child be praised sincerely and justified.
What is necessary to encourage
First of all, it is necessary to awaken the responsible activity of the child. Almost always the child tries to imitate the adults. In such cases, the motivation must be consciously directed at strengthening work and improving skills. In addition, a great role is played by constancy. All the tasks and responsibilities that the child has taken on, must be performed regularly and willingly. It is the permanence that allows the child to feel safe.