"They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it," said Confucian. It is the same with writing. Therefore, the most important thing about let the kids to write is to make them interested and excited about writing.

Make full use of their spare time when you want to lead your kids to the way of writing. You can make them excited to to speak and talk about anything in a humanistic atmosphere. Painting a picture on the wall, their emotions children will be on the painted pictures, and they would like to share with you their opinion about the pictures painted, and even they want to have a try by offering some suggestions. You can help them to make a list of the idea, and later on, let them to put the ideas together.

It functions as a visual image to a means of communication in the children, the children will become conscious of the interest to write about it, for they find it would be fun. So, they will put their heart into writing. Each time they have their article written, they would be very happy to tell you about it.

When you read their writings, even there are too many mistakes, you need to praise them for their work, at the same time, you need to let them know that there are better ways to say about what they wanted to say. You can do it by a game or giving gifts to them if they can better their writings later. If you are willing to act as the children's intimate friend, they would be more willing to follow your suggestion. Don't scold them, or shout at them.

The more confident they are, the more thoughtful and precocious they would be. If you find them unhappy, you need to make them become happy first, before you guide them with writing. In addition, you can guide them as much as possible to speak and write fluently. You need to pay attention to selecting the appropriate mode of a dialog and create a good atmosphere for training the writing habits.

In this way, you can get your kids become interested in writing, and maybe, with your efforts, some of them can become great writers later!

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