Helping Your Children To Be Successful Students
Positive Discipline: How to respectfully take more control. An important strength of positive discipline is that you can respond quickly and assertively and with confidence when your child behaves badly. Before the positive discipline approach you may have reacted emotionally when your child wasn’t cooperating with you, or refusing to work with you, and you… Continue reading Positive Discipline: First steps in respectfully taking more control
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
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
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.
Are you frustrated about the lack of homework happening in your home? Do you find it hard to be consistent and persistent with your child and their homework? I'm here to encourage you to persist. As Babe Ruth the famous American baseball player said, "You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up. Webster's… Continue reading Being positively persistent about regular homework
Create agreements that make you both happy. This week I've asked permission to share an email from a concerned family coach who is working with me. She has a young boy who is working on improving his Mathematics and reading and writing skills and he is a very skilled negotiator - even though he is… Continue reading Win-win agreements make coaching your child reading, writing, and maths skills more fun!
Is your child reluctant to go to school? Not bringing homework home? Refusing to read and write? Disliking mathematics? Parental involvement in children learning to read, write, and do mathematics is a key factor in them doing well at school. Parental involvement shapes the child's identity as a learner, and sets higher expectations for the… Continue reading Help your child develop their reading, writing, and mathematics skills: Don’t leave it all up to the teachers.
Families as Coaches 