Good parents

Of course, you want your children to study well, successfully pass the exams, and, perhaps, already think about the place for them in one of the good universities. Therefore, you have a great temptation to seriously interfere with their training - how to constantly check the tasks that they are given, and try to give them some additional knowledge.

A friend of mine, my father, regularly asked children about what they had been doing this week at school, and then spent half the weekend telling them everything that he himself knew about it( of course, being sure that his knowledge exceeded knowledgeschool teachers).Well, a wonderful way to inspire children disgust for school and overload them with unnecessary information in most cases!

Let's figure it out.

The task of teachers is to give your children the information included in the school course and prepare them for the successful passing of exams that serve to reveal both the level of the child's preparation and the professional suitability of the teacher.

You're not a teacher. You can allow the child to make mistakes and learn from his own mistakes. You can transfer to the children all the vital life skills that we have already talked about, which the school does not teach( and which can not be assessed on a point system);and this is much more important than school performance. You can encourage the child to study a new one( to spend a vacation abroad, to register for lessons in karate or in the section of sailing, to earn money for harvesting fruits), to search for new interests, get acquainted with new people. You can advise a child to read more, learn more about the world in different ways, ask questions and form his own view of things.

At a certain period the school is easy to take first place among children's priorities, but your task is to create a balanced picture of the world. If at home you only do that to check the children's homework, demand a report on what they have gone through or hammer everything that you yourself know about Henry VIII, the school will take them all the time and space in life. And if the teacher scolded the child for something, there is no need to do it again. You should not inspire a child to despise the school, saying that you lack knowledge in one of the teachers. The only thing you can say is, "You must do what the school requires, even if you do not agree with it, but if you have already been reprimanded about this, I will not repeat the same thing the second time."

Yes, you should check the diary in the child, and if you do not ask where its dirty sporting form is, you can not wash it( and you certainly do not have to guess that the dirty socks lie in the pencil case), but you should tryto the fact that the time spent by the child outside the school was really as free as possible from her. The older children become, the more importance the school acquires in them: they spend more time there, they are more asked to go home, the preparation for exams becomes more serious, so the importance of how you can organize a full rest from schoolcases.

IN THE SCHEDULED SCHOOL PERIOD EASILY TO TAKE THE FIRST PLACE AMONG CHILDREN'S PRIORITIES, BUT YOUR OBJECTIVE IS TO CREATE A BALANCED PICTURE OF THE WORLD.