Here are some tips to help you to support your child to do their homework.
- Some students report feeling the expectations of their parents.
This could be because parents don’t want them to make the mistakes they made or maybe it’s a family culture of having ‘high aspirations and achievement’.
Although this is understandable, discuss with your child/ren what is going to motivate them.
- Students who are struggling may have got a 3/7 grade (for example). In the past, they might have thought of this as ‘not very good’ but now will perceive it as being ‘okay’.
This could be to avoid self-punishment or seeing their achievement as failure.
- Students should be encouraged to use resources such as http://www.educationplanner.org/students/self-assessments/index.shtml.
This is to understand which learning styles could be more useful for them to do homework and revise for tests.
- Sometimes, studying can be counter-productive as it can lead to resentment and low motivation to achieve potential.
Therefore, encourage your child/ren to produce into their study timetables ‘free time’.
Free-time’ can act as a reward and it can also be ‘substitute’ time to do work or study when the planned time does not work out for whatever reason.
Please see this document for information on tips which could help your child whilst doing their homework.
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