Improving Focus

One struggle for us, especially with our son, is to get him to focus.  I came across some games that can played offline to help children.  I am including this in this blog, since focus is necessary for any educational activity.   Here are some games that make sense, and would be fun for most kids:

Have your child close his eyes, and imagine a triangle. Then have him draw the triangle, with his eyes closed, on a piece of paper, slowly, and accurately. Then have him do it again, and watch if there is any improvement in the triangle he has drawn. The slower he does it, the better. It is practically impossible to perform this task, without concentrating and focusing on it, and the slower the task is performed, the longer the intense focus. If you want, you can have a competition, you can do it with your child, and the one who finished later is the winner, or the one who has a better triangle, wins. You can organize a group of kids to compete with each other. (When your child is drawing perfect triangles, you can advance to more complicated figures, a square, a Star of David, a star... whatever figure you can think of.)

Reference: http://www.freeconsumerindex.com/Parenting/19460.php