Five tips for Children’s Homework - Continued

If it is a science, reading, or history test, you can ask questions from their notes or workbook until they have mastered all of what you feel is important on the test so they are very prepared for this test.  Test grades are difficult to bring ‘up’ after having a bad test grade and these test grades are a large portion of their overall grade, so your help in preparing for a test will surely benefit your child’s progress in school.

Even if your child is older, you can help them with their homework by listening to them. Sometimes when a child, or a teenager, is having a difficult time with their homework simply saying the problem out loud gives them the ability to find an answer or you can suggest how to find an answer. Ensuring that your child has access to books, newspapers, magazines, the library or even just a computer – is all going to help get their homework done and in on time.  Many schools even have online tutoring and/ or question and answer sessions each evening to help children through homework when they are ‘stuck’ which is a big help too.

One last item to be tackled when you are discussing homework, children and the how to – you should have an area set up for your child or children so that they can focus on their homework, and where you can see them doing their homework and not just playing around.  If your children are constantly doing their homework in their rooms, they could be reading comics, playing the game boy, or just taking a nap instead of doing their homework.  Having your child do their homework at the kitchen table, in the living room on the floor or in the family room at the desk is going to be a great method for teaching learning habits.