Children are more successful in school when parents take an active interest in their homework. It makes the child comprehend that what they are doing is important.
Parents can be supportive by demonstrating educational and organizational skills, or by explaining a tricky problem and encouraging them.
Here are 5 suggestions to help your child better manage their homework:-
1)Create a Positive Learning Environment
2)Schedule a regular study time
3)Be a motivator and monitor
4)Communicate with Your Child
5) Stay Involved and Be Supportive
Eh… appropriate involvement is highly dependent on the child’s age. If you’re actively monitoring homework with your high school aged child, that could be an indicator you’re too involved. These look like great tips for an elementary aged child, starting to phase out parental monitoring in middle school and by high school, kids should have these skills and be in charge of their own homework.
It depends on your child. Ideally, your child should be doing their homework independently by the time they get to high school. But not every student is, and if your student needs this kind of aid you should give it, rather than do nothing in the hopeful but probably unjustified belief that the problems will solve themselves.
I think the key to to actually pay attention. I see so many parents who have no idea what’s going on in their child’s life and then are surprised when their prospects for the future are zilch. Just. Pay. Attention.
That lists reminds me of the How to Get Your Baby to Sleep articles in parenting magazines that I read in sleep deprived desperation. First, they would say, allow your child to take a favorite toy to bed. Oh right, like I was saying to the nonsleeping kid, no you have to leave Mr. Bunny in the living room.
Nobody ever did tell me how to get a kid with panic disorder and executive function disability to quit catastrophising long enough to get his math book out and see what the assignment was. To this day (and he’s 24) the word “homework” can make both of us run screaming from the room.
The other kid, on the other hand, needed no special homework area, no help from parents, no encouragement and apparently enjoyed homework. I don’t know because I never actually saw her doing any but she always had the highest possible grades.