childrens homework help

When my son was at school I found when helping him with homework that teaching practises had changed so much it was hard to help him. His english was terrible and his teacher would give him high marks for content rather than good spelling, punctuation and grammar. We had the same problem with maths. In the end my son asked us to pay a tutor to help him. It was worth every penny. He came on great and regained his confidence.

i don't have kids so can't really say. but help those kids

i try to help my child the best i can with his homework but feel quite ashamed because im ayoung mum and i admit i dont spend enough time with my child reading or helping him with his homework. I agree with melmca when she says she trys and not helps them with there homework. I do ususally find what ever im good at i have no problem with in passing it on to my child. I did my alevel last year in music. I sing and play the piano and i will always have time teaching my son music.Im studyin maths now and dont have a problem with that either but other things like science and stuff i hate so. I also find it hard to get my child motivated so i went into WH Smiths and they have pc books of maths and english or any other subject but they make the things into games and you collect gold stars along the way there great.

i found it difficult to help my daughters with their maths homework. I spoke to the school and they decided to run parent evenings to show the parents what their children are learning so they are able to help. You could suggest this at your school. I also went to learn direct and took some adult numeracy and literacy exams as it had been so long since I'd leanrt them. This didn't cost anything. The other thing I do is use BBC Bitesize Website. That is a brilliant site for maths.

Yes, I know what you mean. It is time consuming and hard work to help children with their homework as you have to try and do what is best for them without taking the shortcut and giving them the answers! What you need to do is help them to find the answer for themselves, motivate them to do so. The best way to do that is to help them with some clues and praise them when they do find the answer. Praise them even more when they find it without any clues. You can make a game of it if you want, they love that. Just keep in mind that even though it would be easier to do the homework for them, in the long run it will not benefit them. It is nice to see parents who do care about the homework and who do want to help their children in the correct manner. So keep it up, I can see you do it for them. If you are not sure how, there are a lot of websites with extra exercises on specific subjects and help for parents. Good luck!

definately help with their homework, you could even learn a thing or too along the way

yes the more the better as the children will be off the street causing problems , more time studying

I think the biggest thing is that it is helping the child. That means that you don't give them the answer, you help them to work out the answer through rephrasing or visually showing them how to solve it. If you do it for them you are causing them a problem as they will struggle when in school with not having learnt how to do the work. You should never do the work for them, or answer the questions for them but you should help them come to the right conclusion. A lot of the time its about finding the way they learn best and then using that to help them come to the answer so they understood the thought and reasoning process behind finding the solution.

I try not to help my children with their homework, after all it is supposed to be a measure of their knowledge and work abilities. Mine have already been tested ad nauseum and i don't need to go through that again. With my primary age child i also think that it is important that the teacher sees from the home work whether or not he has actually grasped the principles that he has been taught in class. I always thought that that was part of the reason for doing homework in the first place. If i hekp him too much then the teacher will not have that opportunity. With the older one who is doing GCSEs i will prof read it with her, going over, or rather prompting her, to see how she could do it better. And i spend alot of time discussing the subject matter with her, and sometimes looking for resources and internet sites to help her. But it is down to her to go through them and do all the actual work.

Just the fact of sitting down with your child encourages them to get going, and I used to do similar examples of what they were doing especially in Maths and English, and explain to them the way I was doing it as I was going along. I then asked them to do the same with their homework if they then still had trouble understanding I used to send a simple note to their teacher explaining what I had been doing and the fact that they could not pick it up , but very often just sitting there with them and doing similar things alternate to them did the trick.