Quality education has always been one of the important points in the development of a person as a representative of society. Thinking parents, starting from elementary school, orient their children towards a deep immersion in science and demand that they study with excellence. But they also need to understand how to help a child study well.
Not everyone is born a genius; they grasp educational material on the fly and, without the slightest cramming, bring home straight A's from school. Each child in 1st grade needs an individual approach. Choosing a school, hiring tutors, and comfortably equipping the nursery is not all that parents can do to improve the quality of a student’s academic performance.
It is worth noting that each child is unique and requires attention not only from teachers, but also from close people - parents. This is directly related to academic performance. Therefore, mom and dad should know how to help their child learn.
What can be done to ensure that the child studies well?
How to help your child study? Psychologists say that children up to about 2nd grade do not yet completely separate themselves as an independent person from their parents. When a child needs to force himself to do something, to show his will, he does it for his parents, so that mom and dad are happy and praised. For himself, the child eats candy, watches cartoons, and fools around. Children under 3rd grade do not understand that they are learning for themselves. Therefore, the organization of the educational process must take into account the interests of the child. It is better to create a correct daily routine in which games and studies will alternate.
Parents should also show interest in their child’s school life, take time for heart-to-heart conversations, and show respect and complicity. Because communication in the family is the basis of psychological harmony and comfortable relationships in society.
If your child comes home from school feeling upset, be sure to talk to him and ask him about the reasons for his bad mood. The child should not be afraid to talk to his parents on any topic. Involve him in dialogue. Perhaps he had a fight with his classmates or received an unflattering comment from a teacher. It is better to discuss and solve the problem immediately. Because a 6th grade student may start missing school, which will only worsen his academic performance.
Initiate a conversation on abstract topics. Discuss historical events, scientific discoveries. Make it as interesting as possible so that the child remains impressed by the discussions with you.
If a student is having difficulty learning his lessons, parents should show attention and help them understand the difficult topic. This gives the child self-confidence and, oddly enough, develops responsibility.
Support your child emotionally, teach him to be independent, and be strict but loyal parents. Tell examples from your school life, share your experience, demonstrate trust.
Proper nutrition is the key to successful learning
Modern research has shown that the brain is one of those organs that suffers first from malnutrition. Therefore, if your child has become irritable, gets tired quickly, has difficulty remembering educational material, and begins to get lower grades at school, look at what he eats.
In most cases, these symptoms occur due to poor nutrition. Fats and carbohydrates occupy a significant place in our diet, and modern children and teenagers are crazy about fast food - and all this is harmful to health. It is important to limit your child's intake of soda, chips, hamburgers and other similar foods.
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The most important group of vitamins for the brain is the B vitamin group. Vitamins in this group are responsible for memory function, attention and learning ability. To improve memory, it is necessary that the child’s diet include foods such as: nuts, milk, fish, chicken, meat, liver, buckwheat, fresh vegetables and fruits. If your child finds something tasteless, do not force him to eat it. Try to approach this issue creatively: decorate the dish beautifully, look for new recipes where this product can be served in a favorable and tasty light. Develop yourself, and your child will develop with you!
And remember: loving, caring and wise parents are the guarantee that the child will not only study well, but will also grow up to be a thinking, educated person, a real Personality! Therefore, do not waste time, do not push your child away if he comes to you with a question or wants to have a heart-to-heart talk. Monitor his health and encourage his success. Be on friendly terms with your child. You will succeed, you just have to want it!
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When do you need help with your studies?
How to help if a child is not a good student? And when should you pay attention to his bad grades? If your student has always been a good student, and suddenly got a C or a D, then don’t panic. Perhaps he was just tired, didn’t get enough sleep, or forgot to learn. Everyone makes mistakes. Talk to him, find out the reason for such a sharp failure. From now on, you shouldn’t follow him around, trying to track whether he did his homework or not. Most likely, he will quickly come to his senses and next time he will bring another five.
You may need help when your child regularly “pleases” you with bad grades. In this case, just talking is not enough. Contact your teachers - maybe they will tell you what to do. Start helping your son or daughter with homework, check how your child has learned the material. If support at home doesn't help, hire a professional tutor.
Try to support your child in his hobbies
A child at any age needs to know that an adult is sincerely interested in his daily affairs and asks about his successes or mistakes. It is very important for high school students to count on acceptance of their rebellious hobbies or self-discovery - at this age, any misunderstanding grows into a huge problem. If you don't know anything about what your child is doing, spend some time studying the subject. Most likely, you will soon find that your relationship has become closer and more trusting.
Proper organization of the day
Proper time management will help you study better at school. It is the basis for productive learning. If parents want their baby to develop comprehensively, study well and be happy with life, they need to think about time management. If the daily routine is properly planned, then the baby’s physical and mental health will only strengthen, and his intellectual abilities will develop. A proper schedule promotes productivity and protection from overwork. The children's schedule should contain the following items:
- dream;
- walk;
- school lessons;
- doing homework;
- additional sections;
- eating;
- educational and creative games;
- rest (child’s free time)
- personal hygiene.
When a person performs the same actions at the same time, it becomes a habit. And this, in turn, contributes to the formation of responsibility, independence and punctuality.
Don't do homework with your child
This life hack applies primarily to parents of first-graders and elementary school students. This will also, of course, be useful for everyone else, as it will be a reason to work on mistakes, but parents of beginning schoolchildren have every chance of not making these mistakes.
Right now, starting in September, stop doing homework with your child. Let this become his area of responsibility, his job, as long as it does not affect exam results and admission to universities.
And if it is already influencing, still stop taking on the role of a controlling and supervisory body. You won't be able to do this for the rest of your life, so it's better to stop now to form the right habits for the future in your child.
Meanwhile, do not distance yourself from the child, communicate, take an interest in his life, not in his studies, and if he asks for help, then help with advice. Check the readiness of his homework only if the child himself asks. Don't waste your time and nerves taking on responsibilities that shouldn't be yours in the first place. This is truly a disservice, because you are teaching the child to be led, to obey, to always wait for instructions from above and not to be responsible for his own life.
As the famous teacher and psychologist Mikhail Labkovsky says, as soon as you take responsibility, the child immediately relaxes and stops being responsible for anything. But you, meanwhile, are waiting for the opposite effect. Just be there, be for the child, show your love for him regardless of his studies, and gradually he will begin to learn, become independent, and this will truly be his achievement. And most importantly, you will get a healthy emotional atmosphere in the family without nerves and swearing about lessons.
Organization of study space
For good studies, it is necessary to normalize children's life. The child should be comfortable doing homework, reading books, and sleeping. Mom and dad should pay attention to the living conditions of their son or daughter. Does the child have a comfortable bed, how many lamps does he have in the room where he prepares his homework, are the table and chair suitable for his height and size.
Thanks to healthy sleep, the child's body rests. This means that he has the strength to replenish his knowledge base. We must not forget that the human brain also works at night. Accordingly, there is no need to leave the TV or radio on in the baby’s bedroom.
Expand your horizons together
In order for a child to study well, he must have an interest in learning and general erudition. And in order for a child to have an interest in knowledge, and not just in gadgets, you yourself must be interested in this very knowledge.
You cannot tell your child “read a book” and sit down at the tablet; it is useless to send him alone to a museum or exhibition. The child will still be like you, so read with the whole family, discuss together what you have read and the films you have seen, visit exhibitions and museums together, and arrange evening gatherings with board games.
And yes, it’s not only about family unity, it’s also about the habit of learning new things, which means about successful learning and an interesting future.
Your child is a schoolboy. He is already quite an adult. Let him be independent and always be there in case you need him. Love him without judgment. Love is an important factor in good study.
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How to get your child interested in studying?
If a child does not want to study, you need to know how to help him. In order for your child to go to school with pleasure and do his homework, you need to motivate him. You can do this in several ways:
- When your whole family is busy with something, you should devote more time to cognitive activities. While walking through the park, tell your child about the trees and animals that live there. When going to watch a movie, choose a documentary about the history of the country or marine life. When arranging family readings, take not an adventure novel, but an encyclopedia about the stars. Ask your child questions about the structure of the world around him and tell him interesting information yourself.
- Engage in cultural education. Go to museums, theaters, galleries, and exhibitions. In addition to intellectual development, such trips develop children’s artistic taste and aesthetic perception. To help your child learn new material better, play tour guide with him and teach him new things in a playful way.
- If your student gets a good grade, be sure to praise him. Especially if this is the first time. Don't be afraid to overdo it. The child must understand that efforts are always rewarded. Rejoice with him. Give him a pleasant surprise in honor of the A.
Article “How to help children study well”
Ponomareva Tatyana Gasanovna
Mathematics teacher at Makeevka secondary school No. 72
HOW TO HELP CHILDREN STUDY EXCELLENTLY
How to help children study well
Dislike for learning is familiar to almost all adults. Everyone remembers how reluctant they were to go to school. But at a certain point we came to our senses and made up for everything we had lost. Or almost everything. After a few years, they began to regret that they had not spent more time on their own education. A similar problem is observed in our children. They don't want to go to school and sit through boring lessons. Therefore, I will try to tell you a little how to make a child study
.
First you need to analyze the current situation
and understand what exactly caused the dislike of studying. After all, there are many options for rejecting studies. It could be boredom or learning difficulties. But in fact, there are many more reasons why children do not want to study.
Very often a child has no desire to study because he is very bored at school
. Think about it, there are so many more interesting places to go. Every kid would love to go to a zoo or an amusement park. But instead he has to sit at school and do homework after school. Most often, such reluctance to learn is caused by incorrect and uninteresting presentation of the subject. The teacher was unable to interest the child. Only parents can correct the situation. To do this, you should discuss the situation with your child and find out his hobbies and inclinations. After all, it can’t be that he’s not interested in anything!
Often a child does not want to do his homework because it is very difficult for him to study
. Adults see how extensive the material is given at school and begin to feel sorry for their children. After all, they have to learn so many unnecessary things. Agree that not everyone uses their knowledge of chemistry every day. But on the other hand, such an extensive program is not created so that children remember the formula for calculating a definite integral even 20 years later. An extensive program is given only to develop the ability to think and look for non-standard solutions.
Difficulties with studying begin only because some lesson was missed or the material was not understood
. As a result, it turns out that lessons become real torture. How to force a child to learn in this situation? There is only one way out: to help him understand the material.
Many children do not want to study, because everything is so easy for them at school
. And if the subject is so easy, then why delve into its essence? But this will not always be the case. Once you relax a little, you will begin to teach other material, which is no longer so easy to understand. At first, the child does not want to study, because everything is easy for him, and a little later, difficulties begin with mastering the subject. It is impossible to force a child to study in this situation. But if you catch the moment when the material is easy, but the desire to learn has not disappeared, you can begin an in-depth study of the subject and participate in olympiads.
To avoid such problems in the future, the student needs educational motivation. A child who has just started school should be told more about this institution.
. Tell him why he should go to school, what it will give him. And the child will be very interested in such information.
Try to highlight your child's talents
. If a child does not want to study, this does not mean that he will not do anything. An aptitude for drawing or music is revealed in kindergarten. But aptitude for learning languages or mathematics can only be seen while studying at school.
But one day the child will have to choose a profession to his liking.
. And already at the age of 12-13, children know who they would like to be. To find out your child's priorities, give him more free time and observe what exactly he will do. But keep in mind that self-realization requires strength. If your child constantly plays computer games or watches TV, he may be tired of the complex school curriculum. But this may also indicate improper upbringing, which suppressed the manifestation of his temperament and capabilities.
It is impossible to say unequivocally how to force a child to study.
. This is impossible to do. You can only achieve short-term results for a week or two. Therefore, you just have to create a desire to go to school. Talk to your child more often, find out his problems. Let him understand that he is gaining knowledge not for the sake of his parents, but for himself. And that he will have to apply them, not you. And you should not punish or unduly reward your child for his academic performance. After all, punishment for failing in the diary will not bring anything good. But a conversation on the topic of lack of knowledge will be more effective.
Become your child's friend and mentor
, who will always come to the rescue and help deal with his problems. Let your child understand what exactly he should choose in life.
Tips for students:
12 ways to force yourself to learn:
1. Set the task correctly!
First of all, you (the student) must correctly set yourself a task or goal.
Think not about how to force yourself to study, but about how to start studying well
, because you are essentially learning anyway and will continue to study.
The formulation of the task is very important, man is a rather strange creature and if you force yourself to do something, then your subconscious will resist it and will interfere with completing the planned tasks (learn lessons, listen to the teacher, etc.). Moreover, you will get much more pleasure from such disobedience than from following your goal. If you formulate your question in a different way, for example: “How can I finish this year with flying colors?” or “How to start studying well this semester?”, then you will not notice how you will start looking for ways to get a good grade at school, that is, your consciousness will begin to work in cooperation with the subconscious, focusing on a positive result. 2. Find the motivation (reason) to study well.
Reason for learning is the best method in learning.
Your task is to find an incentive that would work specifically in your case. For most, perspective is a good motivation, but for some, the long-term perspective works: If I finish school with excellent marks, I can go to university.
For others, the prospect should be closer and more realistic:
If I finish the school year well, my father will buy a ticket to the camp, where I will go with my friends for the whole summer!
I don’t know what can make you study, but I know for sure that such motivation exists.
Find her! In general, I would say that the incentive to learn occupies one of the dominant roles in learning; if it is found and used by the student, then he is able to achieve incredible success. 3. Set up your workplace.
It would seem that such a minor issue as the arrangement of a student’s workplace can affect learning, but believe me, it can radically change the speed of completing homework and its quality.
I agree that lying on the bed with a tablet or laptop is quite pleasant to do homework, but it is not at all effective. Because when lying down, a person remembers and understands it much worse, and most importantly, more slowly. This is due to the physiological characteristics of the structure of human organs. Try to allocate a small place in your home where you will exclusively do things related to your studies. A special feature of this place should be that there will be no computer, no laptop, no tablet, no mobile phone. Only necessary notebooks, books and stationery (pen, pencil, eraser, etc.). Those who are used to having a computer on their desk at all times, and without it, the desk seems boring and dull, I advise you to organize everything on the desk in such a way that it looks beautiful and interesting: buy new bright stationery, replace the boring desk lamp with a new one and original. In addition, it is better to place the table near the window, so that not only daylight illuminates the workplace, but also the view from the window allows you to be distracted or, on the contrary, concentrate. 4. Change your clothing style.
Of course, clothes cannot force you to start studying, but their style can serve as the wave of the starting flag for an athlete.
Let me explain in a little more detail: each of us knows how to distinguish a good student from a bad one. A good student is always dressed neatly and strictly (especially for guys), which cannot be said about a bad student; his style is always radically different from what one should wear to school. So, when this same “not very good” student comes to class in a formal suit, the attitude towards him changes dramatically, both among the students and among the teaching staff. And the first thought that arises among those around him is “Hasn’t Ivanov (for example) finally come to his senses and started studying?!” Yes, yes, with the help of a regular change of image, you can achieve such changes in your attitude towards yourself. Naturally, after everyone has thought so well of you, it will be difficult to turn back into a lazy person who goes to classes to “sit his pants.” 5. Make learning fun (mind map method)
.
You have probably noticed that many girls in your class, during lessons, do not write in continuous text, but using various markers and quotes: important phrases are written in a different color, rules are highlighted in various rectangular tables. Even small sketches were made with a pencil and a ruler. Do you think they are just doing nonsense?! Wrong, they make the lesson fun by coloring and highlighting the main points. In addition, at home it will be easier for them to remember this information, since they remember the terms not only by meaning, but also visually, which allows them to remember the information faster and better. 6. Reward yourself for success.
It is difficult to force a teenager or an adult boy (girl) to study, but it is quite possible. Use reward methods for this, for example: You completed your studies today and didn’t get a single bad grade - praise yourself and allow yourself to walk for an hour or two today. And if you also got a good mark in an important subject, then here you can still reward yourself with something tasty (chips, chocolate or pizza). Remember that encouragement should only be given if you really deserve it. If you are guilty, then there can be no talk of any prize or rest. You must realize all the sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat. In addition to grades, you can reward yourself for completing homework, going to the library, actively working in class, etc. That is, the results can be expressed in completely different ways. Don't get hung up on grades. It would be more correct to focus on the knowledge gained.
7. The first step is difficult to take!
The most difficult moment in learning is the first step, the beginning of the process.
Admit it to yourself, how often has it happened that you put off your homework until the last hours of your waking hours?! Probably quite often - after all, there are always things that seem more important than homework. Agree that starting to do homework is always more difficult than finishing it. It is so?! The main reason for a difficult start is simple laziness. Homework may turn out to be a 15-minute task, but you need to sit down and start thinking about it, but you don’t want to do this. The faster you overcome laziness, the faster you will begin to study well. 8. Study well from the first semester!
If you decide to finish this year with good grades and show yourself in the best light in front of teachers, parents and friends, then start studying well from the first semester. Don't put things off until later. At the beginning of the year (after the holidays), all tasks will accumulate gradually, and this is a chance to solve them quickly and correctly. If you procrastinate, you will end up in an unpleasant situation towards the end of this year or semester; there will be little time left until the end, and there will be a lot of things to do and assignments.
9. Work more in class so you have less to take home.
A tricky way for those who know how to value their time.
It often happens that the teacher manages to finish the lesson before the bell rings and, in order not to burden you with unnecessary information, asks you to go about your business. I do not advise you to waste this time, you are still at school, at your desk and cannot communicate loudly with friends, so use this time wisely: start doing your homework. Let it be not on this subject, but on another, even if not for tomorrow. Doesn't matter! The main thing is that you will save yourself time at home, which means you can spend an extra 10-20 minutes walking with friends in the fresh air. 10. Organize competitions and marathons.
Try to negotiate with your parents for a kind of competition in which they will sponsor the prizes.
For example: if you receive only good grades in algebra over the next two weeks, then after these two weeks they will buy you a new mobile phone (for example). The time and gift may vary depending on your previous academic success, as well as the wealth of your family. If you set conditions for a year or a semester, then take into account two factors: firstly, in six months or a year, the family budget may change (and not always for the better), so try to get guarantees from your parents for a particular purchase. Secondly, keep in mind that motivating yourself to buy the same bike throughout the year is very, very difficult. Sooner or later you may not keep the bar raised. 11. Manage your time correctly.
Try to study and relax according to your schedule.
For example, immediately after class, don’t come and sit at the computer, but come and sit at the kitchen table, eat, then go do your homework, and go out for a walk in the evening. This way, you will always know that at this time you need to do your homework and not rest. Don’t be afraid to experiment with your regime, as some people cannot be forced to study immediately after school, they first need rest, and they start their lessons the next day early in the morning, but this regime is quite risky, since there is always a chance of oversleeping. 12. Develop your willpower.
Sometimes it happens that no competition and no motivation can force a child to start learning. In such cases, there is only one piece of advice: “Grit your teeth, gather all your willpower into a fist and, by all means, start studying! Not because you want to, but because it’s NECESSARY!” In this way, you will develop willpower, which will come in handy more than once in the future. Good luck!
