by John Ambuli

Created on: January 22, 2008   Last Updated: March 11, 2008

ASSISTING YOUR CHILDREN WITH THEIR HOMEWORK

Assisting your children with their homework has its own advantages. Not all of us can communicate as fluently as we are expected with other people and understand or cram what we are supposed to cram within the time that we are given. There are some people whom even if the teacher went on teaching for the whole day, they can not hold even one single thing in their heads. I was a kid ones and I know it.

I used to fear my teachers so much that life with them was full of panic. Every time that a teacher appeared where i was, the first thing that i did was to check myself for any mistakes. After the teacher had passed or finished with the me, i would then work very hard to remain that way always. SO, that is how life was .When the teacher thinks that he or she is doing the best, the pupils on the other side are too scared and occupied with worry as to whether they are well before the teacher or not. They are too scared of the teacher to follow what is going on in the class. Whenever the teacher tries to talk to them, the first thing that they think about is the cane or the other forms of punishment, they get too scared and think that it is another insult from the teacher.

This kind of environment of sometimes weakens the pupils in their class work .In other words, the communications between the pupils and teachers has been dominated by the insults that class work and it has affected them physiologically. Some of the pupils have decided that they are foolish and have gone on seeing themselves as foolish before the rest of this world and in order to bring the to their normal conditions in class, you will have to add another extra thing to their normal class work to make them understand that it is really because of them that the teacher is is doing what he is doing. It is, by then, very hard to make them feel that they too can take part and do well just like everyone else does in this world.

So, if a parent can get some time at least even an hour every evening, it is good to monitor your children's work in school. Check your children and see what subjects they are talented in, and in what environments that they can do best in. Find out the things that make them do best in school and then give them those things. A good example is like then case that we have jus seen above. There are children who do best in a friendly environmen. In such cases, please stamp out hostility as a choice among the solutions of instilling discipline in them. It worsens it in their inside, that is physiologically. Perhaps your children will find refuge in you from the outside cruel world and then they will start understanding every thing in their lives better, an you will see it as a miracle. Perhaps you could even sneak up to school and whisper a word or two with their teachers

So if a parent follows up his or her Childs school work and then discovers her weakness, then it will be easier to help her or him, even if it means sparing some time every evening to go through what the teacher did during the day and straightening them out. Canning is also out of the list of correcting children in school or unless it is very necessary, say form one who goes to drink or smoke bhang instead of going to school. But those who go to school and sit and listen and then have these problems, we ought to create the right environments to make the do well in their education, the rest of the things about life they will just know them as they continue growing up.

Assisting your children with your home work is good because it makes you to know the children well and to know how you can help them.

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