Dec 23, 2003 12:58 PM
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(Updated Dec 23, 2003 01:07 PM)
Education is an important part in one’s life. Illiterate is the word used to call the person who is not educated. In olden times, education was not considered this important as it is today. From the grandfathers to the grand children and their children would continue with their traditional business. The fathers would train the children and inturn the children would train their children and so on. Never did the need to go to a school or a educational training center arise at that point.
The British rule in India changed the mindset of Indians and all thanks to those great Indian leaders who evoked the awareness of education and hence going to school became very important. Thus starts the interesting adventures of schooling and of course the phobias of doing homework.
Being a mother of an 8 year old boy, who is as usual busy with his pranks,monkey jumping and of course his cartoon network, it really becomes too difficult to manage him and his homework after a tiring day at office. Advices from elders come in as “Ladke to aise hi hote hain” means “they are never serious.”. I never fail to take out time to work out ways to make him enjoy doing his homework at home that too without my help :
To deal with such situations, here are some of my tips of making your child enjoy his homework.
* If you are working and when you reach home you come to know that he/she has wasted time the whole day playing or watching TV. The remedy to this problem is to sit with the child and talk to him/her about his day at school, Praise him/her for the work done in school. This would make the child confident. Show the child the easy to understand way to complete the work..if it just means writing n number of times or solving sums . You will feel proud to see your child’s homework complete by the time dinner is ready..
* Don’t forget to give a call from office and talk to your child about the day’s work. Enquire about the homework and tell him that you shall bring chocolates or any gift that he/she would like to receive. This also would prompt your child to compete his/her homework before you reach home. Don’t forget to check the work that the child has done and correct it.
* Talk to him and try to know the reasons of hating studies and homework, make him comfortable and tell him easier ways to complete his work. A hug or a kiss on your child’s cheek would make him/her feel the warmth of your love which might instigate the feeling that you are always there for him/her. Appreciate the child for the good work done.
* The last and most important point is to make your child understand how important it is to study and become successful in life. Share with him/her your experiences of school and studies and maybe explain him/her with the help of a story on a off day. All these moments would just drive the phobias of homework and make him enjoy studies and also would love going to school.
The summary is that with love and patience you can drive the fears of homework and inturn make it all the more pleasant and enduring. As a good parent you also need to find out the interests of your child and make him do the work that interest him after the homework is completed. My son loves drawing. Everyday he is there with a small drawing in his notebook and also he feels proud to show me. I am planning to create a small album of his amazing pictures. Such sort of encouragement makes him feel important and also more lovable.
The only grievance against homework is that the length of the homework should be well within the control of the child for it to be completed or else it may turn into a nightmare both for the children and the parents. Fortunate enough that I am, my child does not fear homework any more. Now it is like, Mamma, aaj bahut homework diya hain, I would finish it and then go to sleep (in the afternoon). And half of my days tension vanishes and I am relieved.
A bright student that he is, sometimes he shows tantrums in finishing his work but then those tips I just mentioned above does all the wonders and everything is again set to normal. Now I m gearing up to train my young one, a daughter to the adventures of schooling. Perhaps, yeh to ladki hain…to main bhi she might be serious and would not require the above tips at all” God only knows what’s in store for me. Thanks to my mamma who too was a working lady, who helped me find this tips and trained me in such a way that dealing with my kids studies is not a problem at all.
