Explain special situations to Your Child
Physical problems with seeing and hearing, learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) are usually discovered by an alert teacher. You can watch out for over conscientiousness which can also make your child stressed. That’s why it is important for you to share what’s happening at home and combine these with what’s happening in school.
If your child has a chronic illness such as say asthma or diabetes, your teacher should know what it is, how it is to be treated, what she can do or watch for in school.
Do your bit with homework, studies find that parents who supervise homework for an hour or so a day help a child to feel secure and to succeed. So
- Understand the curriculum and took at the textbooks so that you know what’s explain or taught.
- Present homework as a positive experience homework as a positive experience not as a nuisance.
- Explain the teacher if your child is having difficulties, takes too long or can’t meet set deadlines.
- Check with the teacher if your child says that there’s no homework at all for a couple of days.
- Allowing the child to face the teacher’s wrath for work not done teaches responsibility.
- Don’t harp on homework as soon as they/you walk through the door. Let everyone get over the day.
- Try to ensure that your children have a peaceful, if not necessarily silent room, without TV and music, and a clear surface to work in.
- Work out a routine together. Suggest short spells of work with chill-outs, rather than a long stretch. Say wash, food ‘n’ chat, written homework, active play, oral homework, dinner, TV/computer games, bath, and bed.
- Try not to go on after dinner, when the body is busy digesting a meal, the brain functions less efficiently.
- Run a quick check on the homework as soon as possible so that you can procure extra material if necessary. Teach your child to use appropriate internet sites. Keep reference books, pencils, crayons, ruler, glue, scissors, compass box, graph and tracing paper, calculator, and so on in one place – so that the child can’t use their unavailability as an excuse.
- Small fry may need encouragement, praise and company if they are to enjoy their work. Sit somewhere nearby and explain any portion that they find particularly difficult with older children.
- Review homework, offer assistance if asked for, take up tricky bits. Doing it yourself not only prevents him from learning anything worthwhile, but also leads the teacher to assume that he has mastered something which is still a puzzle. If demonstration the best way to solve a problem, be sure you understand exactly how to do so. There is nothing more discouraging for a child than to watch a grown up stumbling to find an answer.
- Check by looking up the text book that you are using the same methods that are taught in class sometimes your procedure may be perfectly effective, but the end result could be uncertainty if the school methodology has changed. Never just provide answers but offer similar problems to demonstrate how the answers are arrived at. Break down complex problems in to bite-sized steps.
- Try to fit family actives around your children’s homework, so that they don’t fell left out when everyone else is having fun.
Co-operate with the PTA
You have the right and the responsibility to take a very active role in knowing what happens in the school – from days in the syllabi, fee hikes, to compulsory bus services. Joining the PTA is the only way to do this, rather than being critical from the outside. Attend meetings, lend a helping hand with activities, get acquainted with parents, the Principal, the teachers.
Volunteer as parent representive of your child’s class if you have enough of time. Join the teacher to help the children make democratic decisions, to help them figure out who is best suited for what job in a class project. This will give them a feeling of pride and responsibility, and appreciation for one another. The position does not mean currying favor with the teacher, but allows you a better, more meaningful understanding of the school system.