Helping Your Children To Be Successful Students
A definition of consequences I like is, 'something that follows as a result for our actions'. We create our own consequences in our lives. An excellent example of this for yourself as a parent is the positive changes you can create in your life when you focus on what you can change rather than what… Continue reading A positive discipline approach: Fair agreements and consequences
A positive discipline approach. I believe that it is up to us as the parents to discipline our children so they can learn to discipline themselves. To do this well we need to stay respectful and remain consistent with them and I encourage you to remain respectfully tough while consistently expecting high standards of behaviour,… Continue reading A positive discipline approach: How to be respectfully firm with your child
Check out this blog by a mother of 9 titled 'raising children is not a default chore is inspiring. As parents living in a society with many pressures brought to bear on us to be so much more than good parents, we need all the inspiration we can gather to stay focused on remembering what… Continue reading Reading – how to help your child read well and with pleasure
Is your child reading regularly? If not, what is stopping them from choosing to read? You might think they don't read often because of all the devices they use, or that they prefer sports, or that they have never been good at reading....But those are still not enough reasons to not read. Do you agree?… Continue reading Reading – it’s important: Help your child read more often.
Simple negotiation steps to gain your child's permission to read/write/do maths at home more often: These negotiation steps are written for a younger child but can also be used to negotiate anything with your teen, from driving your car, to completing all homework at high school, to studying more regularly for exams. 1. The soft… Continue reading How to Discuss Doing Homework Together with Your Child
Stay respectful with your teen throughout the whole homework negotiation process, and never give up! Don't hurry homework negotiations. Even when feeling provoked, impatient, annoyed, attacked...stay respectful. If the atmosphere becomes tense between you both, slow down the negotiating process, but without intending it to stop. Believe that there is no hurry - that time… Continue reading Your teen and homework : Tips to respectfully negotiate with them
The power of respectful negotiation – it moves mountains… and teens. Negotiate homework with your teen - don't pressure and push them or bribe or reason. You probably already know this but I’ll say it anyway. Coercion won’t work with anyone in the long run. Your teen might do their homework, but they will be… Continue reading Helping your teen do homework: Negotiate with respect and firmness
Homework needs to be done! Homework helps your teen learn and remember. Getting your teen to sit down and actually concentrate on completing homework can be a challenge - and I encourage you to face that challenge with me over the next few weeks. Why should your teen do homework? Recent educational research shows that… Continue reading Why does your teen do homework? To learn and remember.
Does your child lose concentration, learn very slowly, or become frustrated and bored easily with homework? Are you trying to help a child do homework who doesn't seem to be able to concentrate? Or who is often talking about anything but the maths or reading or writing task in front of them? Perhaps both of… Continue reading Make homework time easy: Help your child concentrate and learn faster.
Homework with your child can = serious fun! Some of it isn’t much fun of course but during a successful homework time together there can be wonderful shared moments of laughter, chat, triumph and pleasure. Here are some of my favourite ideas. Keep things light. When you and your child become too serious, irritated, bored… Continue reading How to make helping your child with homework more fun for both of you.
Families as Coaches 