Children
How To Help Your Children With Homework
When you have children you have to take care of them. Of course. How you do that is different from other parents.
No parent does the same, no child is the same. Not every condition is the same. But we have to be that parent who supports their child, love them unconditionally, no matter what. There will be times when your child is getting homework from school.
When your child asks you to help with homework, be open to learning something too. There will be lessons that you don’t recognize from your class or you just don’t know the solution. That is possible, but it is fine. Try to solve both — you and your child, the lessons, so you can help the next time as well. Sometimes you have to think hard before you can assist. Don’t mind that. That is ok. That is a part of raising children.
They need to learn to ask you questions, and you need to learn to help your kid. But how do you help your child? Is there any system for having success with helping your child with homework? I don’t think there will be one good method for helping your child with doing homework. But you have to find as a parent to help your child. Every child needs a different approach.
So, let’s show how I help my daughters with their homework.
My youngest is six years old. She doesn’t have that much homework. Actually, she doesn’t haven’t any homework, but for training pronunciation, we have to go to a website to help her reading and writing. Every day we sit behind the laptop to play games on that website, learn the words to speak and how to read them out loud. Now she can read books more quickly. I love to see how things work out great for her and how my spouse and I helped her.
My second daughter is ten years old. She barely has homework at primary school. When she gets homework, she doesn’t want to question, because she is afraid she is doing everything wrong and everybody is getting mad with her. But that is not right. And that is what I’m telling her every time. I think she understands now. She trained in standing up for herself. It pays out now.
There is my oldest, twelve years old. She goes to secondary school. And she has a lot of homework. She has so many topics to do. Sometimes she gets crazy from all her preparations. She told me yesterday that she can’t plan and that she wants to learn that. I also am not such a good planner. At least, I can plan, but not keeping up what I have planned.
What is the subject — be prepared
Prepare yourself, as a parent, what the subject is. If you don’t know the subject you don’t know how to help your child with homework. In the beginning, I wasn’t prepared. Then, I couldn’t help my daughter. That is a shame for both of you.
What does your child have to make
Ask first what exercises your child has to make. What they think is difficult. Not every child has the same issues making homework. How much and which of the exercises does your child don’t understand. Let them explain first what they don’t understand. So you understand what your child needs.
What does your child already know
Also, go through the text from the book what it says. Then read it together out loud. This helps her understand what the book says. Read it together a few more times. Then sometimes your child sees the light and understands it better by reading the text together.
What told the teacher
Ask what the teacher told the students what to think about the text when making the exercises. This is important to know more about the text and what they have already learned in class before making the homework at home. When your child is getting more information from the teacher you can get further with the exercise. Then the puzzle will be solved sooner.
What is the problem your child has
If your child still has issues making the homework, then ask what your child doesn’t understand about the text and the information the teacher gave your child. When you go through the text together, then mostly your child will understand eventually. But still, you have to help your child solving the issues.
Let your child think by itself
In the first place, they need to learn to do it by themselves. When your child is having questions, you have to tell them they always may ask you (the parent).
It is important your child thinks for yourself. But you — as the parent — should ask the right question about the text to learn them think. When your child doesn’t know about a maths exercise, ask what they don’t understand and let your child try to explain it to you. When your child does that to you, mostly they think about what they are telling you. And suddenly they see the light. It is a win-win too.
Agnes Laurens is a writer. She writes for the local newspaper. Agnes lives in Bunnik, The Netherlands, with her husband and three daughters. Writing is — aside from playing the violin — one of her passions since childhood. She is on Twitter and Instagram.
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