Help your child be successful
Tips for handling homework:
These are the messages to get across to your children about homework:
- Education is important. Homework has to be done. Let children know that this is what you value.
- Try to have a special place where each child can study.
- Help your children plan how to do all the things they need to do--study, work around the house, play, etc.
- Let your children know that you have confidence in them. Remind them of specific successes they have had in the past perhaps in swimming, soccer, cooking, or in doing a difficult homework assignment.
- Don't expect or demand perfection. When children ask you to look at what they've done--from skating a figure 8 to a math assignment--show interest and praise them when they've done something well. If you have criticisms or suggestions, make them in a helpful way.
What We Can Do To Help Our Children Learn
- Listen to them and pay attention to their problems.
- Read with them.
- Tell family stories.
- Limit their television watching.
- Have books and other reading materials in the house.
- Look up words in the dictionary with them.
- Encourage them to use an encyclopedia.
- Share favorite poems,songs, and books with them.
- Take them to the library--get them their own library cards.
- Take them to museums and historical sites, when possible.
- Discuss the daily news with them.
- Go exploring with them and learn about plants, animals, and geography.
- Find a quiet place for them to study.
- Review their homework.
- Meet with their teachers.