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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 217743" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>A tip for those who are finding homework a bit of a hassle, who successfully campaign to stop it at least for a while but are still concerned about how the child is doing - find some home-based computer tuition, preferably in the form of a game. A computer is non-judgemental, it's a really good way to help a student who is self-conscious about struggling. Make the game available, but also encourage rather than push, the child into doing it. </p><p></p><p>We dealt with it by having limits on the basic shoot-'em-up computer games (not after dinner) and made an exception for the educational games. As a result, our games-mad kids happily played the educational stuff and learned, as a result.</p><p></p><p>It will depend on what your child is struggling with, but we found some good games were the Carmen Sandiego ones (we helped, to begin with, played them as a family) such as "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" (a good Geography one; you can get a US-based one too, not really relevant for us); "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?" (history) and so on. They are in the form of interactive detective stories. There are some good maths ones but ours are probably out of date now; we used to play "Number Maze" (Great Wave Software) which was brilliant for kids who are doing well at maths as well as those who are struggling. we also had "Outnumbered!" which was faster-paced but in some ways simpler. A lot of fun. </p><p></p><p>Whatever can successfully build confidence, is what works.</p><p></p><p>Mamabear, I'm so glad you had a win on this. I hope your daughter finds it as much of a relief. Do make a point of telling your daughter that you and the teacher have agreed on this, because you both hope it will make things easier for her. She needs to know you and the teacher are both in agreement, and she needs to NOT feel that she has "won" in any way by being so difficult. This is simply a choice you and the teacher have made on difficult child's behalf; the question now is - Will she continue to do as well as she is already doing? Or will she slip behind at all, for not doing any homework? It is now in your daughter's best interests to keep her standard up by concentrating in class, asking for help if she finds the work confusing at times and learning to actively move TOWARDS the scary stuff, not away. You and the teacher are doing this because you have faith in her that she will do better this way.</p><p>You could also talk to her in a week or so after this, ask her how she feels about schoolwork and whether she feels any disadvantage to the no homework. There is nothing that says she can't choose to read her notes by herself; but it is now HER choice - a wonderful, freeing thing for a child, a wonderful gift.</p><p></p><p>One of the things we've found with difficult child 3's correspondence lessons - it is ALL homework, but because he does it during school hours in a quiet environment, he works much more efficiently. Only recently has it got too much for him; what almost all parents have found, when their kids start this system, is that they get ALL their work done usually with time to spare. But if they were in a classroom doing the same lessons, they would take a lot longer.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 217743, member: 1991"] A tip for those who are finding homework a bit of a hassle, who successfully campaign to stop it at least for a while but are still concerned about how the child is doing - find some home-based computer tuition, preferably in the form of a game. A computer is non-judgemental, it's a really good way to help a student who is self-conscious about struggling. Make the game available, but also encourage rather than push, the child into doing it. We dealt with it by having limits on the basic shoot-'em-up computer games (not after dinner) and made an exception for the educational games. As a result, our games-mad kids happily played the educational stuff and learned, as a result. It will depend on what your child is struggling with, but we found some good games were the Carmen Sandiego ones (we helped, to begin with, played them as a family) such as "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?" (a good Geography one; you can get a US-based one too, not really relevant for us); "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?" (history) and so on. They are in the form of interactive detective stories. There are some good maths ones but ours are probably out of date now; we used to play "Number Maze" (Great Wave Software) which was brilliant for kids who are doing well at maths as well as those who are struggling. we also had "Outnumbered!" which was faster-paced but in some ways simpler. A lot of fun. Whatever can successfully build confidence, is what works. Mamabear, I'm so glad you had a win on this. I hope your daughter finds it as much of a relief. Do make a point of telling your daughter that you and the teacher have agreed on this, because you both hope it will make things easier for her. She needs to know you and the teacher are both in agreement, and she needs to NOT feel that she has "won" in any way by being so difficult. This is simply a choice you and the teacher have made on difficult child's behalf; the question now is - Will she continue to do as well as she is already doing? Or will she slip behind at all, for not doing any homework? It is now in your daughter's best interests to keep her standard up by concentrating in class, asking for help if she finds the work confusing at times and learning to actively move TOWARDS the scary stuff, not away. You and the teacher are doing this because you have faith in her that she will do better this way. You could also talk to her in a week or so after this, ask her how she feels about schoolwork and whether she feels any disadvantage to the no homework. There is nothing that says she can't choose to read her notes by herself; but it is now HER choice - a wonderful, freeing thing for a child, a wonderful gift. One of the things we've found with difficult child 3's correspondence lessons - it is ALL homework, but because he does it during school hours in a quiet environment, he works much more efficiently. Only recently has it got too much for him; what almost all parents have found, when their kids start this system, is that they get ALL their work done usually with time to spare. But if they were in a classroom doing the same lessons, they would take a lot longer. Marg [/QUOTE]
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