I find habit stacking the most effective, I have a streak over 500 days on Duolingo now and I tell you, even the world fall apart I will do my lesson there, just because it'd take me another 500 days to achieve the same and that fear has become the driving force.
The benefit is, I can stack any activity that I might avoid to do. We just have to trigger that craving
We started right after my oldest started 3rd grade. Up until then we had enjoy math with them but hadn't taken the time to really explore how much they loved math. Once we realized that they wanted to do more math than we were giving them, we started reaching out to parents of older kids to better understand what we should be trying to do.
> Were there any prerequisites in terms of their development?
On the kid's side: that they enjoyed math and wanted to do more of it
On the parent's side: the understanding that they wanted to do it and it wasn't us just pushing it on them
To cultivate a habit switch your
language from “I can or can’t do”
to “I do or don’t do.” - Kevin Kelly
I find habit stacking the most effective, I have a streak over 500 days on Duolingo now and I tell you, even the world fall apart I will do my lesson there, just because it'd take me another 500 days to achieve the same and that fear has become the driving force.
The benefit is, I can stack any activity that I might avoid to do. We just have to trigger that craving
Best,
Jay
Jay - thank you so much for the comment and the language advice - very helpful!
500 days on Duolingo - that's fantastic. Congratulations!
How did you get started?
I just wanted to watch last season of 'La Casa de Papel' So I started Learning Spanish and rest happened. Not yet fluent but happy with the progress.
How old were your kids when you did this? Were there any prerequisites in terms of their development?
Hi Andrew
Thanks for the question!
> How old were your kids when you did this?
We started right after my oldest started 3rd grade. Up until then we had enjoy math with them but hadn't taken the time to really explore how much they loved math. Once we realized that they wanted to do more math than we were giving them, we started reaching out to parents of older kids to better understand what we should be trying to do.
> Were there any prerequisites in terms of their development?
On the kid's side: that they enjoyed math and wanted to do more of it
On the parent's side: the understanding that they wanted to do it and it wasn't us just pushing it on them