"The ideal activity is five minutes five a day, but it's important to do it diligently on a daily basis," Dawson says. "I usually ask my son:" You were given ten algebra assignments. How long do you think you'll need?"
Set the best rhythm for your work with a well-thought-out schedule and rest breaks. Provide your child with the right conditions for classes.
For example, one child has a need to work next to a parent in the kitchen, and the other is best worked in his room. Someone needs a clean, free of foreign objects place for classes, containing everything you need. And someone feels comfortable in a creative mess. Some kids follow a schedule, others need a to-do list.
When your homework starts to make your life impossible, it's time to contact your teacher or school counselor. Jennifer Goodstein, a sixth-grade teacher and executive director at Bethesda, Md., says she asks parents to write her an email when a child loses emotional self-control. "We can take on the role of the villains and say,' Okay, Brandon, you've had a fight with your mom, so you'll have to do your homework at school, '" Jennifer says. And then she makes a schedule for extra classes at school.
When Goodstein's eleven-year-old son gets upset, she starts asking him leading questions or helping him sort out a problem condition. But if he does not understand the subject itself, then Jennifer asks the teacher to give more examples. It also delegates the teacher to deal with the quality of assignments. "If a son writes two sentences, when it seems to me that he should write five, and he says that the teacher said to do so, then this is the teacher's concern."
Set the best rhythm for your work with a well-thought-out schedule and rest breaks. Provide your child with the right conditions for classes.
For example, one child has a need to work next to a parent in the kitchen, and the other is best worked in his room. Someone needs a clean, free of foreign objects place for classes, containing everything you need. And someone feels comfortable in a creative mess. Some kids follow a schedule, others need a to-do list.
When your homework starts to make your life impossible, it's time to contact your teacher or school counselor. Jennifer Goodstein, a sixth-grade teacher and executive director at Bethesda, Md., says she asks parents to write her an email when a child loses emotional self-control. "We can take on the role of the villains and say,' Okay, Brandon, you've had a fight with your mom, so you'll have to do your homework at school, '" Jennifer says. And then she makes a schedule for extra classes at school.
When Goodstein's eleven-year-old son gets upset, she starts asking him leading questions or helping him sort out a problem condition. But if he does not understand the subject itself, then Jennifer asks the teacher to give more examples. It also delegates the teacher to deal with the quality of assignments. "If a son writes two sentences, when it seems to me that he should write five, and he says that the teacher said to do so, then this is the teacher's concern."
