How Can You Help Your Child Have More Energy for Doing Homework?
ByIf your child seems to drag or be slow to start homework and stay with it until it is done, you need to help her find some energy. There actually is something concrete you can do to make this happen.
An often overlooked opportunity is to simply make sure the child is looking at the homework in digestible pieces and not just one big mountain of unmanageable stuff. You may need to give some attention to helping your student break down the work because there is often lack the skill or ability to back away and see the pieces as small individual tasks. It all just looks like one huge list of stuff to be done.
One way you can help her break it down is to suggest putting each assignment on a separate 3×5 cards. The next step is to choose one task which will be done first and then turn all the other cards face down. There are numerous other ways you can help her isolate and then complete one task at a time.
The completion will create more energy if it is recognized and acknowledged. This can be done by the student or with added encouragement and appreciation from you.
