When I was helping my girl prepared for a PSLE, I realised that there were many things I could do to help her. Beside the teaching/coaching her on the technical contents of her subjects, I was setting schedules, teaching her about examination time management, introducing her to smarter ways of learning and remembering, pointing out short cuts & using fewer steps to solving problems... etc etc. These soft skills are not new to most parents, they are probably applying them at work. These soft skills are new to many primary school children and they have not acquire them yet. When I used these soft skills to help my daughter prepared for her PSLE, her learning pace quickened and she ended up with good PSLE results. The best thing is that she gradually picked up these soft skills and is now applying them in her learning in Secondary School. Children learn from watching their parents.
My book "A* and A: How I helped my child score in the PSLE " was written for Parents. Hopefully after reading the book, parents will realise that they are the ones that possess many 'adult know how'(soft skills) which can help make their children's learning more effective and less stressful.
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