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Should Parents Help Their Children with Schoolwork: Unintended Consequences
22.01.2025 15:40
Homework at school is given primarily to the child, not to his parents. This is how schoolchildren consolidate the material they have learned and demonstrate their level of knowledge.
The desire of parents to help and make it “good” and “excellent” is understandable, but fraught with unforeseen consequences.
Experts have explained whether parents should help their child with their studies and what can happen if they make a mistake.
Self-organization
This is what parents of schoolchildren should remember.
A child can very quickly start to cheat and ask for help, not because he doesn’t understand the topic, but because he doesn’t want to think.
Parents won’t even notice how they start studying for their child, just so he or she can be an excellent student, but in fact they will raise an irresponsible person.
Academic performance
The exercises completed in the homework book with a "good" or "excellent" grade do not affect academic performance. Quite the opposite.
The child stops learning, overcoming difficulties and developing if he has the opportunity to turn to his parents for help.
But the point is that at school he will have to solve these problems on his own.
Complexes and mistakes
The child may develop an excellent student complex and be afraid of making mistakes. And the fear of making mistakes limits a person's development.
It is also important to remember that parents may explain the material incorrectly and the child will learn it with errors.
Therefore, the task of parents is to control the process and help in finding a solution, and not to suggest an answer or the correct solution.
