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How To Encourage Good Study Habits In A Child by Opeomoope: 8:47am On Sep 20, 2016 |
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Begin introducing "academic" activities
to your children as early as 2 years old.
Some suggestions include reading books,
drawing/painting, learning simple
arithmetic, engaging in basic grammar
exercises, learning a foreign language,
picking up an instrument, and learning
new vocabulary words through drawing
pictures.
Feel free to pick up toys, games, art
supplies, workbooks, flash cards, and
other commercial learning materials
for your children. You can also create
your own or make them with your
children.
Make sure this is quality time that you
are spending with your children, so sit
down with them and watch as they
complete the activity. Don't hand them
a book and walk away. Even if they are
capable of reading on their own, it's
more fun for them if they have your
company, so let them read aloud to
you.
Children love spending time with and
getting the attention of their parents. If
you can let "academic time" be a
regular and fun part of their routine,
your children will associate learning
and teaching others with satisfying
feelings.
2
When your children begin receiving
homework from school -- most likely
during Kindergarten -- instruct them to
set aside time right arriving home from
school to complete their work. Tell them
that the hour right after school must be
set aside for homework time, but they are
free to play earlier if they finish their work
earlier.
Instead of making your kids work right
after school, you can also designate a
set amount of free time and then
schedule the hour of work time. It's
usually easier to get the kids inside to
do homework before they've begun to
romp around outside, however.
Scheduling a routine "work period" for
each day of the week at an early age is
important because their homework is
relatively easy and enjoyable. As young
children are malleable, they will gladly
follow your guidance and complete
their homework right after school. If
you continue to enforce this as they
age, they will begin to want to set
aside this time on their own in the
future.
On weekends, you should also set
aside an hour (e.g., 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.) for
your kids to complete homework
assigned by the school or academic
work prepared by you. This would be a
great time to continue activities
mentioned in step 1.
3
When your children begin developing
independence, pull back a little from
your involvement in work time. Late
elementary school or early middle school
(5th - 7th grade) is a good time to do this,
depending on how quickly your children
mature.
Start by reminding them to start their
homework right after school, but don't
micromanage the process of how they
choose to complete it. You don't
necessarily need to know what all their
homework is before they do it.
However, you may want to continue
checking their assignment sheets and
knowing the due dates to ensure that
your children are completing the work.
In middle school, your children will
begin to have homework from multiple
classes with various due dates.
Discourage them from starting an
assignment the night before it's due.
Instead, make sure that they do a little
bit of work every day. This way, they
will be forced to start their
assignments early.
4
When your children are in 8th grade or
high school, reduce your reminders of
work time, and see how your children
respond. Do they continue to complete
their homework after school without your
prompting? If so, congratulations: you
have successfully instilled effective study
habits! If not, punish them for their
irresponsibility and continue to monitor
their work time as necessary.
Tell your children that if they show self-
initiative in completing their work and
therefore can earn your trust to
manage their work independently, you
will reward them by backing off.
5
As your children are exposed to more
and more difficult material, teach them
effective study strategies for dealing
with the new workload. Suggestions
include:
Writing down every task in a to-do list
or agenda booklet with the due date
For long-term projects, setting due
dates for certain stages of the projects
before the actual final due date
Making flash cards for memorizing
vocabulary words, key figures, dates,
foreign language concepts, etc.
Starting to study for tests at least three
days before the actual day of the test
to maximize retention of the material
When studying for midterms or final
exams, dividing up the studying into
units and deciding when you want to
study each unit beforehand
Finding classmates to create study
groups
Taking meticulous notes in class and
reviewing them after school to
reinforce the material early on (so that
when the night before the test arrives,
absorbing everything will be much
easier)
6
Even when your children are in high
school and should be managing their
own work, ask about upcoming projects/
tests and inquire about their plan for
completing them. Even if you don't ask
your children to divulge the details of their
planning, your question will remind them
to start ahead of time, create a plan, and
finish early. You should continue to show
that you care about their academic
success and that you will reward them for
their good study habits. |
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