{"id":10788,"date":"2017-07-17T21:32:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T21:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kumon-us-english-blog.local\/blog\/summer-learning-miracle-months\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T15:59:21","slug":"summer-learning-miracle-months","status":"publish","type":"canadian_english","link":"https:\/\/www.kumon.com\/resources\/canadian_english\/summer-learning-miracle-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Learning: The Miracle Months!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As parents, you work hard to maintain a balanced lifestyle for your children. You constantly juggle the often overlapping requirements of family, friends, school and extracurricular activities as you attempt to provide an environment for your children that is healthy, educational and fun.<\/p>\n

This task, difficult at the best of times, is even harder in the summer when vacation activities push education to the bottom of the list.\u00a0Experts believe that parents who assign a low priority to their children\u2019s education in July and August often have a problem in September when they are forced to re-establish the patterns and habits needed for academic success.<\/p>\n

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Luckily, the conversation on summer learning is alive and well at Kumon! We\u2019re biased, but we think the summer months present a special opportunity to get ahead. One of our instructors, Slavka Jasari, refers to summer time as the \u201cmiracle months\u201d \u2013 a time where kids can progress easily because of the reduced course-load that summer brings.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting in April, I tell all my new families to really think about the summer months – school will be out, so kids will have more time on their hands and doing just one small bit of work every day, for the two months of summer holidays, can you imagine the progress and how much better and stronger they will be when they go back to school? You will feel like it is a miracle. Parents like it and even students [like it], because I really make it sound easy – just 20-30 minutes of small work a day\u00a0but the pay-off is huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course the real problem is convincing your children to give up some of their vacation time for schoolwork. Most of them will argue that they don\u2019t need to improve. So here are some things to keep in mind as you prepare to talk to your children:<\/p>\n