TIPS FOR PARENTS
IMPROVING YOUR CHILD’S STUDY HABITS
1. Encourage your child to talk with you about school and what he/she is learning. Listen and share what you know about the subject. This helps to generate enthusiasm an interest.
2. Provide a proper home study setting with a place to work, good light, adequate materials and free from distractions.
3. Ask to see your child’s homework assignments frequently.
4. With your child, plan a regular time for studying each day. We recommend an hour a day. Consider family schedule, extracurricular activities of your child, as well as your child’s best time for studying when deciding on study time.
5. Help your child understand that studying is more than just reading or doing homework. Share techniques you know for learning new material.
6. Help your child with organizational skills such as time planning and organizing notebooks and materials. Share ideas that help you.
7. Treat school as your child’s job. Encourage regular attendance and punctuality. Habits set now will follow the child into adulthood.
8. Be sensitive to your child’s health needs. Proper sleeping, eating, and exercising help your child to be more alert when studying.
9. Encourage your child to do his/her homework. Support and encouragement from parents are important but you should not do homework for your child.
10. Make exceptions realistic in terms of your child’s abilities. Be sensitive to frustration regarding schoolwork.
11. Try to be positive if your child brings home poor work or tests. Approach it from the standpoint of how you can help him/her do better.
12. Notify the school counselor or teacher when family situations arise that may worry your child and keep him/her from concentrating at school. Teachers need to be aware of the emotional concerns of students since such concerns may affect their day-to-day performance in class.