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Helping Your Child Do Homework ? When To Interfere And When To Step Back?

June 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Why do parents help their child in doing the homework? Don’t parents know that homework is something that their child ought to do on his or her own? You should choose the educational institution of your child with a lot of care. If teachers cover 10% of the curriculum in school and hand over the rest as homework, it is obvious that you have chosen the wrong institution for your child.

However, if bulk of curriculum is covered in school and practice tests are handed over to the child as homework, you would be making a big mistake by interfering in the process. Many parents make the mistake of comparing the homework they used to do with the homework given to their child. Well, you were 10 years old more than a decade ago. In such a scenario, expecting the level of educational standards to stay the same for many decades at a stretch does not make sense.

The most harmful consequence of interfering in homework is that your child finds a reason to criticize the curriculum and the educational system. You may not be comfortable with the current system but you are aware that there’s no escaping the same. On the other hand, your child may conclude that simply criticizing stuff is enough to escape ones obligations. Sooner or later, the child will have to wear the consequences of poor grades.

If you feel that your child is getting too much homework, try having a word with the teachers. However, make sure you do not undermine the authority of the teachers and the educational institution by criticizing it in front of your child.

 

 

 

 

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Transitioning From Working Mom to Stay-at-Home Mom

May 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Many women who work want to leave the workplace behind and become a stay-at-home mom. While many of these women envision a more peaceful, more calm environment that their workplace, they may be a bit surprised at the amount of activity and energy required from stay-at-home moms.

Following are a few tips on helping women who may be making the transition from career woman to at-home mom.

Enjoy your new freedom. Also, enjoy yourself as you start doing all those activities you may have dreamed of such as walks in the park, visit to the library and so on.

Be prepared that you may soon tire of that freedom. You may find yourself wondering if anything new will happen today. Simply start planning new activities into your schedule to alleviate any stagnant feelings.

You may begin to feel isolated. You may also feel isolated from the “real world” because your day used to be filled with constant communication. Set aside time for adult communication that can help overcome these feelings.

You may have to accept a new identity. If you were a “working mom”, you will now have to accept your new identity as a “stay-at-home mom.” You may also need to develop another identity outside of the home, such as having a part-time job or other ways to express your identity apart from that of mother.

Make sure you have a routine — just like in the workplace. You should strive to wake up at the same time every day, shower and dress (including makeup and hair).

With just a little thought, you can make this transition and easy and satisfactory one for your family.

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Help Your Child Study With a Homework Club

May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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You may find yourself trying to help your child who is struggling to get through and complete his or her homework assignments. This may be because he or she does not understand the subject or may be confused. This can lead to your child being demoralized and not wishing to complete the assignments. Unfortunately, teachers do not always have the time to answer all individual questions.

As a parent, there are ways you can help, such as organizing a study group or a homework club. This will help all participants with homework and will provide support and encouragement for all involved. Here’s how to start a homework club to help your child:

Plan the location and time of the first group meeting. You may need to reserve space if this meeting will be taking place outside your home.

Gather email addresses and phone numbers of the other parents and contact them about a week before the first scheduled meeting. Let them know of your homework club plans, as well as the time and place. Also, find out from them the subjects their child will need help with.

Get other parents on board to help with the study group.

Organize study materials such as paper and pencil the day before the first group meeting.

At the beginning of the first session talk to the children to find out the subjects they most need help. Then divide the participants into groups led by a parent. These groups can focus on different subjects.

At the end of the session, make sure everyone knows the time, date and place of the next meeting.

 

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Teaching Your Child Responsibility

May 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Teaching your child responsibility is a major undertaking – especially in a world where many children and teenagers feel entitled to just about anything they want. The truth is that implementing a system designed to teach your child responsibility will help them become more successful. Start with homework help and school projects or budgeting and see if your job doesn’t become a bit easier.

Budgeting is often a good place to start when trying to educate a child about responsibility. Many working moms find that by working with their child on a budget, they can teach a variety of life skills. For example, a young girl may want expensive doll shoes and clothing for their favorite dolly. Instituting chores and an allowance, as well as a savings plan will teach the child about saving, planning, budgeting, and rewards.

You can use homework help and school projects as a responsibility building tool as well. Simply develop a routine in which the child must set aside an hour, or more if needed, each day to devote to school work. If the child has none, the time can be spent reading or working on an extra project. Implementing this program early can help instill personal responsibility in any child.

It is equally important to have ‘unpaid’ chores. Providing each child with a list of chores they are expected to do without a monetary award helps foster a feeling of independence in the child and may be the most effective way to teach responsibility.

 

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Finding Time When You Thought You Didn’t Have Any

March 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Most people waste a lot of time doing menial things or simply doing nothing, yet complain that they do not have time for important tasks. It may simply be that these people need to organize their time and their homes. Even utilizing five minutes a day to accomplish tasks rather than wasting those minutes will gain you an additional seven hours a month in constructive use of your time!

While your popcorn is in the microwave or when you have another three minutes when you are not doing anything constructive in the kitchen you could organize that day’s mail, organize a drawer and throw away unused lids or containers without lids, do a quick inventory of the refrigerator and toss out old or unusable foods, toss out your expired coupons, take out the trash, or empty the dishwasher.

While you are filling the bathtub or have a few extra minutes to spare you can accomplish a few tasks in the bathroom. Toss dirty towels in the laundry and hang out clean ones, organize your makeup drawer and toss out expired mascara and eyeliner, clean the toilet, or organize your hair accessories.

When you are sitting around “zoning out” in the living room watching television you can still make use of wasted time. During commercial breaks take a couple of minutes for some quick projects. Organize a DVD shelf and make a stack to donate to your local Goodwill of movies you no longer watch or your children have outgrown, pull toys, change, and lost socks out of the couch cushions, recycle old magazines, or do a few leg lifts or calisthenics to get your circulation moving and make good use of your time!

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Raising Your Baby on a Budget

January 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Many people put off having children because they feel they cannot “afford” to have a child. Although having children can be expensive, there are ways to raise a child without “breaking the bank!”

Before your child is born you need to plan a budget based on your finances. You may need to do an inventory of how you spend your money and ways that you can reduce costs and spending. This may mean that you need to make some lifestyle changes, although it is well worth it in the end. Determine your “needs” and your “wants.” Which “wants” or “nice-to-haves” can you do without or wait on? Which “needs” are you able to tweak to a lower cost? For example if utility bills are quite high, are there things you can do to reduce energy use and lower overall costs?

Many people feel that they “must” provide “everything” for their baby. They do not want their baby to want for anything. However, this is unreasonable and is really no benefit for the child. Being a good parent is more about the time you give your child than the things you give your child. When new parents are so busy buying all the “nice-to-have” items for their baby, soon they have spent so much money on toys, gadgets, and accessories that are not even used that there is little left in the budget for the necessities such as daycare, diapers, or food.

If there are certain items you feel you just simply cannot get by without, instead of spending large amount of money for items you may only use for a short time, try finding them used. Many baby items are used for short periods of time and end up with very little wear on them. You may be able to find an item that is almost new or possibly even was purchased by a previous owner and never used for half the price of new or less.

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Learn Parenting and Business management techniques

December 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment

If you are a business owner and a parent as well, it is time for you to ask some question to yourself. Is your family tired of your extremely busy routine? Are you not finding yourself in a position to fulfill your children spiritual needs? Are you stuffed up with loads of work and your life starts and end at office? You are badly needed to take some load off your back, if the answer to the above questions is a big YES!  In such a situation you are required to manage time efficiently so that you get a good quality time to play with your kids. You should keep your kids at top priority and cut down all the un-necessary responsibilities as your kids need you.

You can take help of  San Diego property Management. It is a well known and extremely reputable property management company that offers you much more than just a bundle of services. Most importantly, these services take care of your property and the tenants of your property and they free you from all kind of worries related to your property thus giving you a lot of free time for your family. You can manage your property easily using this property management company. You will of course have to pay them but in return you will get free time and in long run more financial benefits. What else one would wish for?

Do not spend your time fulfilling the requests of other people. Although it is good but never compromise on your family. If you think that you are unable to fulfill your children needs just because you are fulfilling the needs of other, you got to think over it. Try saying sorry to others in such a situation. You can simply let them know that you are already extremely busy and they will not take it offensively.

Try balancing your schedule! Keep the time for your kids fixed and other than that if you have to add something in your schedule, subtract any other which has least priority. This is known as balancing and it is a great way of keeping some tasks totally fixed in your schedule.

You can use these two techniques to get much time in which you can play with your kids.

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