Learning To Study
Suggestions for improving motivation to learn and study:
- Parents can encourage good learning habits with their children at an early age. Reading to children, offering interesting books, and allowing children to watch parents reading set good learning examples for children.
- Listening and talking to children can bolster interest in their environment. Parents can help by presenting new and different things to children as often as possible.
- Joining parent and community groups who support education and youth activities allows children to see that their parents care and believe learning is important.
- Getting to know a child's teachers and school officials is also important in supporting a child's learning.
- Parents should talk to their children about subjects taught in school. This will reinforce the material and show that the parents believe learning is important.
- Homework should be completed at a set time every day. A quiet homework space should be designated for children equipped with the necessary items needed to finish assigned work. Parents should feel free to encourage a child in his homework efforts and offer help without doing the work for the child. It is important to remember that the responsibility of completing the homework assignments lies with the child, not the parent