Children are overwhelmed and do not perform as well in school, feeling obliged to do hours of homework.
Year after year children and parents have to face the backlog of tasks imposed at school. At home, parents must relearn various subjects at the pace of their children and they take responsibility for completing their homework. Let's see how to face the return to homework without suffering too much.
Homework: the dreaded and tiring task
Every parent remembers that years ago the main issue when leaving class was not homework. Before leaving school you would have a quiet snack in front of the television with mythical drawings who accompanied you every afternoon and then you did some exercise. After that, you still had time to go outside to play with your friends. Now this is quite complicated, if not impossible.
Today there are children, depending on their school stage, who spend more time doing homework than playing or resting. They leave school and have to continue studying. Children have to deal with that daily obligation and Parents equally. Parents must figure out how to carry out their teachers' errands and that they do it without question, with desire and effort.
With this, the debate can arise as to whether the school duties imposed at any educational stage are too many for a child. Certainly each parent has their idea and example to position themselves. What yes I would avoid a fight constant is that children could enjoy their daily leisure after spending their corresponding hours studying at school.
Parents who come from work do not want to continue working at home, but rather to have a family life, talk, change and do other activities ... Currently children are overwhelmed and do not perform the same at school. The child cannot feel free, happy or rested if he feels obliged to do hours of tasks come home.
The responsibility of doing homework
It seems excessive and irresponsible to give the child exercises without measure, without even worrying if he understands the subject.
The child must learn to be responsible and comply with what is asked of him. However, let's not forget that he is a child. What seems excessive and irresponsible is putting exercises without measure, without even worrying if you understand the subject. It is correct to do some exercise to review the lessons new ones to assimilate them better or ask questions the next day in class. By doing so much homework, the child will not do things better, he will simply get tired of doing them.
Carrying out school activities helps their future skills, allows them to put into practice tools such as information search and their own autonomy and initiative. However, it is not pedagogical to send some children homework just because, to finish the book to tiempo. At home it is productive to reread your new lesson to take it fresh next day.
Parents have always had the added task of rereading lessons or practicing some exercise when your child has asked for your help. And this if they can be with the little ones, since it is known that parents' schedules usually do not allow them to be at home at times when their children arrive from school. The child becomes frustrated on many occasions. If you don't know how to do an activity, feel fracaso and incompetence. If you ask for help it looks bad because you are supposed to do it alone. This causes the child to be in constant struggle and restlessness.
The conflict that arises at home with homework
However sitting for hours at your desk is not the best solution. Many times this makes the child bored, demotivated, exhausted and does not do homework correctly or convinced. Many times the child wants to finish and does not care how to do it or he refuses, gets angry, does not want to turn off the television or lies saying that he does not have homework or has already finished it. There the conflicts and tensions between family members.
In class and with doubts that he may have, he is usually helped or explained again. Children at home must also be supported in their homework, helped if they are lost. But any parent who finds their child saturated, blocked by the addition and sum of exercises, will do them. and this will not make them less intelligent or suitable for future professional activities. Parents will thus participate in their learning and will be able to comment on it.
Points to face parents and children school homework
For the child it should not be torture to have schoolwork, but rather a responsibility to carry out willingly.
- Create a study habit: Study at the same time, after having a snack and resting, watching a television program for a while.
- Parent Involvement: Children should not be confined in their room, without being able to go out, or ask questions. There are more conflicts when a child sees obligation, feels separated, assumes rigidity and accuracy despite not understanding terms and without being able to ask for help, than when his parents collaborate, accompany him and protect him.
- Adapt your needs, personal circumstances, care problems…: The child must feel capable of approaching them and not see himself as useless or denied. A child may find it more difficult to assimilate certain aspects than others. They may not have understood the lesson, have doubts, fear to ask ... The child should be motivated, put in well structured activities that they can understand and complete. Punishing him at school or at home to finish them will be useless.
- Plan a moderate time for homework: The time should be considered reduced and with specific activities that are easy to tackle. Children are children and must be able to play and rest. If they have already been to school or extracurricular activities, it is not productive for them to keep working tired.
- Consider the economic resources of families: Many families cannot use certain technology or private classes. In this way the child will be discriminated against and will not be able to adequately cope with his task. It thus follows that the important thing must be completed during school hours and with the teacher's advice.
Homework yes, but a few
School homework promote autonomy, work, personal effort, habits, tools to be applied ... Its implementation must be ordered in the right measure and with the collaboration at certain times of the parents or guardians. For the child it should not be torture, but a responsibility that he or she willingly carries out. According to ages and grades, each child should have a review time at home, where they continue to be themselves and achieve the proposed objectives, oriented at all times if required.
The child is not intended to put aside his obligations, but to face them rested, at ease and without rejection. Homework has always been a debate, especially it has been accentuated from a few years ago to the present time. Each parent has their opinion and it is important from the community educational reach a consensus for the well-being of the child. In this way, it will be possible to avoid disputes, confrontations, stress and daily discomfort in the homes between parents and children.