How To Get Your Children To Focus While Doing Their Homework
Do you have a problem getting your kids to focus when they do their homework? If you do, then this article is for you! Being an educator, this is one of the biggest issues we hear about from parents.
This problem can take many shapes and can manifest itself in different ways. My son, for example, comes home and wants to get his homework ‘out of the way’. So he opens up his work sheet next to me or my wife and starts running through it, answering the questions without fully understanding the questions. We try to stress that he needs to read the question well, before writing the answer, but it goes in one ear and out the other. It’s not like he doesn’t know the concept and how to do the problem, it’s just a simple lack of following instructions. Then he’ll get half the questions wrong, and he’ll be like oh, I knew the answer. I just thought the question was different. And we’ll be like yeah Sam, this is what we’re trying to convey to you every day. He’ll nod in agreement, and the next day we are back to where we started!
My feeling is, that this kind of issue results from a lack of patience. Either, he’s been sitting in class to long, and just doesn’t have the patience to sit and read thoroughly through a question, or he is so excited about what he is doing next, that his brain can’t focus properly on the task at hand.
I have had other types of complaints from parents, some worse than what we go through with my son. One woman for instance, complained to me that when she does homework with her son, he’s in another planet. He literally does not hear her when she talks, and has an attention span of 10 seconds. This is a student that is attentive in class, but when he comes home it’s like the light switch for learning just completely shuts off! Read more