How many of your child’s water bottles, or caps, or toys, have never made their way back home from school? How many times has your child called you from school, asking you to urgently bring her the homework, or PE kit, she had forgotten at home? Well, probably too many times!! This blog post highlights a few systems and habits you can help your child build upon over the years to make her more organised and independent.
6 Study Habits To Help Your Teen Achieve His/Her Full Academic Potential
As a mum to a soon 17-year old, I know how the move into Middle School, with subject-taught classes and long-term projects, can test a child’s organisation and time management skills. Add to it the extensive use of technology in the form of personal laptops given for schoolwork and social media and the instant connection to friends. And, in more cases than ever, the pressure that children get to succeed academically, resulting in schedules packed with extra-curricular activities, tuition and enrichment classes, and as result less time for homework and personal study.
No wonder that it can be extremely challenging for our teens to stay focused and get their homework done efficiently. Here are 6 study habits your child should consider embracing to achieve his/her full academic potential.
How to prepare for the new school year
I don’t know about you, but it feels like the summer holidays went by very quickly, too quickly in fact… Just a couple of weeks left before the beginning of another school year. Back-to-school time often comes with some degree of anxiety and stress not only for the kids but also for their parents. But well, we can’t escape it, can we? So just take a deep breath, sit down for 5 minutes and give me a chance to share my top 7 tips to set the whole family up to a smooth start and year.
How to organise kids’ schoolwork
The end of the school year is around the corner. Kids are bound to bring back all the schoolwork and artwork that hasn’t found its way back home during the course of the school year. Let’s face it, dealing with paper can be overwhelming, but even more so when it has been created by our own children. And the younger they are, the more prolific they are, and the guiltier we feel about letting go of their masterpieces! Sounds familiar? Read on to find out my approach to dealing with kids’ schoolwork.
