Secrets to Homework Success

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It is simple to search the internet for homework help tips.  Most tips, though somewhat helpful, assume that your child is willing to sit down and simply get to work.  Most homework ideas revolve around the ideas that your child needs an uncluttered, quiet space that is well lit and comfortable.  Unfortunately, distractions and a disorganized room may not be the real problems.

Many parents have taken the initiative to create wonderfully comfortable environments for their children in order to do their homework.  Then, after the novelty wears off, those old habits of homework avoidance kick in again. 

Consider this.  Your child may have the proper environment to do his/her homework in, but he/she may be doing homework at the wrong time!

Quite often, kids are exposed to after school soccer, dance, music, karate, and other extra-curricular activities.  Students attend these activities from right after school to the mid-evening hours.  So, when does homework fit in to the timetable?  Does your child squeeze homework in between dinner and his or her evening activities?  Does he/she do homework right away?  Or is homework the ultimate evil that has to be tackled before bedtime?

Every child is different!  They have different internal clocks.  When is your child’s down time?  Is it at 4:00, right after school, when you expect him/her to do homework because swimming lessons start after dinner?  Or does your child go straight to piano after school, come home for dinner, and start homework at 7:30 when she is exhausted? 

You know your child best!

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