How to Help Your Children With Their Homework?
Homework is a decisive supplement your child undertakes at school. As a parent, it can be very frustrating to get children to buckle down and do their homework. It’s important that parents not only help children in completing homework, but also help to encourage and motivate them as well. A few tips will help your children have a structured environment to get homework done in timely and establishing a good homework routine every day.
a) Provide a quiet space
This place should be somewhere where they can concentrate, if it is helpful to them, you should get ready a radio with music to them. If your children love some sort of cartoons or graphic, you can decorate the wall with wallpaper or some decoration displaying in the place to attract them.
b) Do not do it for them
If you are an expert in an area that your children are studying, let them know that you are available for them to use as resource. Whatever you do, do not do your children’s homework for them. Discuss your children’s homework and ask if they understand the homework. If they are having difficulty in homework, you may want to sit with them and helping them understands how to complete the homework.
c) Encouragement
Give praise and encouragement to your children when they are doing homework in correct way. Ask your children to show you their homework after it is returned by the teacher, so you can find out if there are any areas where they are having trouble. If they have done a good work, praise them like “good job”, “that’s great”, or “I knew you could do it”.
d) Pampering
Make a healthy snack or tidbits to give to your children while he or she is doing their work. You also can prepare food that your children love, this gets their mind working and entices them to sit down and munch.
e) Provide learning materials
Children can benefit from having revision resources at home. Make a small basket that holds your children’s needed tools for homework. Keep pencils, pens, erasers, crayon, colour pencils and glue in a basket. Your children can get easily distracted when they have to keep getting up to find necessary items.
As parents should remember that you and your children’s teachers have the same goal with homework to help your children learn. Parents should be available to help your children when they need you. Homework can actually be a fun activity for you and your children to bond.
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