- The Teacher-Parents Bond: As a parent, you should attend school events, parents-teacher meetings, conferences and remain in touch with your child’s teacher for getting feedback about your child's performance.
- Make a Plan: For proper guidance make a work plan and schedule indicating the proper time for homework and playtime, break up the work into convenient portions with some breaks. Keep distracting things like TV, cellphones and social media away from them.
- Motivating: It is not necessary to check notebooks and assignments for marks and assessment grades. You may have a little chat with them about their friends’ hobbies, their class activities nowadays, and then ask about the test and marks.
- Encourage Their Efforts: Give them little treats and celebrations when they score well in a difficult test.
- Make Available an Appropriate Environs and Resources: Provide your child a well-lighted space with proper silence for avoiding distractions. Make sure your child has every necessary resource available for doing homework.
- Let Your Child Do Their Work by Himself: Helping your child in homework means making it easy for him by providing suggestions and hints only. You are not supposed to do their homework. For suppose if your child needs help in solving Maths questions, you just need to tell them formulas only, or explain them the method by solving any other similar question and then letting them do the assigned question by themselves.
- Review Your Child Work: Regularly check your child assessments and assignments grades. Appreciate them at their progress and don’t scold them if they score less or bad. Instead try to explain the concepts and questions again.
- Practical Learning: Make practical learning part of your child’s daily routine. For instance, while working in the kitchen you can engage him in counting the apples in a basket and then subtracting or adding in it or during gardening you can discuss with her about the photosynthesis process.
- Make An Agenda: Make an agenda for your kid to follow, with a proper list of things to do first and what needs to be done at the end( of course revision and cleaning and organizing of their study table).
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Give your child time for revision. Sometimes kids get upset and confused when they are unable to solve or understand a specific and tricky topic or question. Here you need to get them a revision of some previous topic related to current topics. This will help them to clear the concepts and learn and understand the new topics. Sometimes you have to explain a single thing a hundred times. Don’t get frustrated or angry with your child. Try different ways for explaining them and letting them learn. Now due to the fruits of advancement in technology, there are hundreds of online learning resources available which can help to learn things more quickly.
If your child is very much lazy and needs constant monitoring, then you can try five minutes of fury for him. Set a timer for every question and activity. Set a proper after school routine for your child. Give him a proper time for playing so that he shows interest in homework as all work and no play will make him dull. Sometimes you may be occupied in some other work and are not free to give your children proper time. But still you can engage them by giving them an assignment or activity and announcing a reward if they complete it timely and correctly. This will motivate them to learn by themselves. If you are unable to spare proper time for your child due to job or any other issue arrange a good tutor for him.