Excuse Me, Your Child is a GENIUS!
Performance = Hidden Potentials - Distractions
Every child would want to succeed in his/her studies. This has caused unnecessary anxieties on them.
In order to have a GENIUS in your house, parents have an important role to play. You can support your children by creating an ideal learning environment that will help them fulfill their full potential and to eliminate any distractions.
Parents should know that one of the most challenging task about being a student, is trying to find the time, will power and disciple to study.
Most students can complete their homework and assignments on time but they still fail in their tests or examination. Mainly because homework is totally different from study. It is usually given by the teachers to reinforce those knowledge taught in class. Homework is important, however it is not adequate to ensure that the students know the contents well.
Study is what the student chooses to revise independently. Students tend to give up easily as it does not give instant results. It is a long term activity that bears fruitful rewards only after the mid-year or even final-year examinations. Due to this, students do not have the will power to continue this tedious effort of regular study.
Parents can HELP!
Study will only become a natural behavior when students can see the real benefits of carrying on such an regular activity.
As a parent-coach, you can help your children by:
As a parent-coach, you can help your children by:
1. Regularly talking to them about their future employment, career options and life after school. This may include helping them to identify their dreams and aspirations in life.
2. Encouraging your children to have goals. Help them work out what they can achieve at school in the short term and how this will benefit their long term plans.
3. Taking an active role in your children’s work and activities. Find out what are their homework, and when are they having tests and examinations. You can help your children to plan an effective and efficient time planner/ time table for their coming tests and examinations.
4. Providing a quiet and conducive environment for your children to study.
5. Providing emotional support, encouragement and praise, and showing interest on every tasks of your children. You can use words like “ Keep it up!”, “Try harder next time.” or even “ I know it’s tough”.
6. Regularly checking up on their homework and study habits is also an important work of a parent-coach.
7. Discussing their progress with your children regularly. Encourage them to accept responsibility for their own performance and to change their patterns of study when mistakes have been identified. This may be necessary to bring about an improvement in future performance.
8. Parent-coach may need to communicate with the teacher if the need arises and to clarify issues regarding the student’s progress.
9. Furthermore, parent-coach need to organize a proper study time for the family as a whole. Some students find it difficult to concentrate in an noisy surrounding. Others find it difficult to study by themselves in a quite room. Thus, it’s important for the parent-coach to identify their studying habits and treat each student as an individual.
10. Last but not least, parent-coach must let their children know that study is an important and worthwhile activity that everyone in the family can involve and enjoy it together.
