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Tips to Help Your Child with Homework & Study Habits
- Let your children know that you believe they can
- Set expectations and define them to your child. Make sure that the expectations are clear and specific.
- Give your child challenges that he/she can master.
- Help your child make choices. Set rules and expectations, but allow the child to choose part of the strategy. Make learning fun.
- Connect the subjects they study in school to real life. Help them appreciate each subject so they can find pleasure in studying it.
- Encourage your child to read, read, and read. Commend your child on the positive things he/she does. Be specific with your complement. Avoid comparison.
- Try not to tell children how to solve a problem or give them the answer. Once they have been told how to do it, thinking usually stops. Better to ask them questions about the problem and help them find their own methods of working it through.
- If your child completed part of the homework and doesn’t know what to do next, or simply says “I don’t know how to do this”, try to ask questions that will help him/her.
- * What is the chapter about? Tell me in your own words?
- * What did you do in class to get started?
- * Could there be any missing or extra information?
- * What have you already tried? Can you tell me what you know so far?
- Don’t expect that all homework will be easy for your child. Avoid negative messages (“I never liked science either”), or (“I can’t believe how much homework you get every day.”). Help them believe that a good plan will help them complete work more effectively and efficiently.
- Expect that homework will be done.
- * Review the completed work regularly.
- *Try to keep your comments positive. Any criticism should be
- * Praise your child for asking questions. Look for places where you can ask questions about the work.
- Help your child get organized. Set up a regular study time and place that is quiet, well lit, comfortable, and stocked with all the supplies he needs.
- Assist your child in making a “to do” list. As your child completes each assignment, he/she can mark it off. That way they experience a sense of accomplishment.
- Have a master calendar. Check the calendar every day.
- Break big projects into small parts. Work at it a little bit at a time. This will help your child learn how to plan and set goals.
Study skills help children develop life skills. Every child is different. Understand your child and work with his strengths first, then on areas that need improvement. Help them with one skill at a time, until they master it and know when and how to use it.
The goal is to develop self confidence, and successful study skills, such as decision making, time management, organization, listening, note taking, and goal setting.