What should I do if my child is slow at doing homework?

Chinese parents attach great importance to their children's academic performance, so they usually supervise their children's studies. In this process, parents often feel that their children do their homework too slowly. Here, parents should be reminded that they must be patient when accompanying their children to do homework. Children's hands-on ability and thinking ability are not as good as those of adults, so they will definitely do their homework slower. Never consider children from the perspective of adults. If children do their homework too slowly, you can take the following methods to help improve.

What should I do if my child is slow at doing homework?

1. Improve children’s interest in learning through praise and encouragement.

When children do their homework slowly, parents should be patient with them. Don't be impatient, urge them too much or yell at them, as this will only increase their resistance. Children need encouragement and praise. Encouraging children will stimulate their inner potential. It can not only improve the speed at which children complete their homework, but also increase their interest in learning. Good children are praised.

2. Treat your child’s homework objectively

When a child has a lot of homework, there is no need to force him or her to finish it. If the child delays doing homework until late at night, his or her sleep time will be reduced, which will affect his or her learning efficiency the next day. From an objective analysis, there is no need for the child to write down the knowledge he or she already knows. The purpose of doing homework is to learn. Let the child explain it to the teacher, and the teacher will understand.

3. Give your child some free time

Due to China's exam-oriented education, many parents spontaneously add pressure to their children, fearing that their children will fall behind. After children finish their homework at school, parents will assign a lot of extra homework and even send their children to tutoring classes outside of school. It is better for children to play while doing homework than to feel that doing homework is a long-term task. This is one of the main reasons why children are slow in doing their homework. Therefore, it is important to allow children to have more free time to spend. After completing their school homework, they can play and do what they like. This way, children will seize the time to do their homework and will not regard homework as a burden.

Fourth, cultivate a character that does things cleanly and efficiently in life.

In daily life, let children develop the good habit of doing their own things. You should not only be able to do the little things in life such as eating, dressing, putting away stationery, taking a bath, etc., but also do them quickly. If you find that your child is doing something slowly, point it out in time and improve his/her work speed through encouragement and competition. Only when he/she does things in life quickly can he/she do his/her homework quickly.

5. Through special training, cultivate children's sense of time to make full use of it.

See how many simple sketches the child can draw within the specified time. Let children feel that they not only need to be able to draw simple sketches, but also need to improve their drawing speed. The results of each training session should be recorded for the children to help them build up confidence in overcoming difficulties. You can also test how long it takes your child to copy a text. By copying the text, your child can increase his or her familiarity with composition and improve his or her writing speed, achieving the goal of writing quickly and neatly. Through training, children can realize the preciousness of time, and improving the speed of doing homework means cherishing time.