6 Techniques to improving your Child’s Studying Habits

The holiday is over; schools are reopening for a new session, and getting your child to switch into study mode will not happen in a flash. Here’s how to boost your child’s study habits and prepare them for a productive school year.

Once the novelty and freshness of back-to-school wear off, students, teachers and parents know it’s time to get to business. Particularly for students heading to secondary school, the assignments become more arduous, the workload gets heavier and staying ahead before school resumption becomes a focal point.

As a parent, you may ask, What is the secret behind getting my child or ward to be on their game? Factors for academic success range from reading actively to communicating with their teachers.

1. Develop a Study Plan

Juggling homework, tests, and extracurricular activities without an active plan can make it easy for things to fall through the cracks. A planner application can help your child put everything in place. Students ought to jot down their assignments, appointments, and to-do lists and then check their planners at both the start and end of each day to maintain focus. Your child needs to know when a test will take place and the topics to be covered; this will help them. Setting goals for each session is also crucial to success. Only outrightly create a plan involving your child, and tailor every plan to your child’s needs.

2. Designate a Study Area

Help your child by providing a quiet, well-lit, uncluttered space for study time. Take it one step further and institute a No-phone policy with no access to social media allowed until schoolwork is done. Any form of distraction should not be allowed in the study area.

3. Provide strength

Encourage them when they are not doing well, and praise them when they study well and ace their tests. Remember that homework is not always fun, so try to motivate and inspire them, not by comparing them to their siblings or peers who are doing better academically.

4. Provide a tutor

Commonly called a lesson teacher, a well-educated and accredited tutor can help your child get better in subjects they are not so good at and even help them boost their knowledge in subjects they are good at. Contract a well-versed and experienced tutor to support the coaching and ensure you conduct background checks.

5. Join in the Study

Create time to do it yourself rather than have your domestic help assist your child through homework. It will spring up opportunities for you to teach them a new trick to get a problem right and impact your knowledge and experience on them.

6. Switch it up

If the method doesn’t work, try another approach. If the plan does not help, change it. Two shorter study periods each day may be easier than a longer one. Early evening study is better than an immediately after-school study. Work hand in hand with your child until you find the best schedule.

Children are to play as adults are to work. So it’s natural for your kids to want to play more than they want to study. However, you can help them successfully combine school work with extracurricular activities.