What should I do if my child is careless when doing his homework?

Chinese parents all hope that their children will have very good academic performance, so they usually spend a lot of time and energy to tutor their children with homework. This is actually a good habit, but many parents go too far. If children are pushed too much to pursue academic performance, it will also cause a lot of harm. Most children will be careless when doing their homework. To solve this problem, you must pay attention to methods and techniques. Parents can try the following methods.

What should I do if my child is careless when doing his homework?

There are different reasons why children are careless in doing their homework. Most of them are due to carelessness, absent-mindedness and sloppiness when doing homework. These children are generally more playful. They seem to be doing their homework, but in their hearts they are thinking about playing with their friends. They blindly pursue speed and finish the work in a hurry, which inevitably leads to mistakes.

Another reason is that "mental set" is at work. "Set" psychology believes that it is a state of preparation formed by previous psychological activities, which determines the trend of subsequent similar psychological activities. Because primary school students lack strong observation and judgment abilities for subtle changes, they are more likely to make unnecessary mistakes. For example, if one learns the character "干" first and then the character "于", one will often fail to distinguish the two characters due to the stereotype of the previous character and end up writing the characters incorrectly. For example, when doing math word problems, as soon as I saw the question "How many are there in total?" I thought it was adding the two numbers in the item, but I ended up getting it wrong.

Therefore, I think that when dealing with children's carelessness, we should analyze specific problems specifically and take targeted measures to provide help and guidance. The important thing is to help children understand that doing homework carefully is an essential basic requirement for completing their studies, and to encourage children to have a correct attitude and treat every homework assignment meticulously. And tell your children that being serious is a good learning quality and plays an important role in their future development. During counseling, you can also focus on the following aspects:

1. Help your child organize his or her sleep and rest schedule. Let children learn to "use time for purpose", play comfortably and happily; when doing homework, they should concentrate and never be distracted. Here, it is important to ensure that children have enough entertainment and rest.

2. Help children develop the habit of doing homework carefully and attentively. Tell your children to read the questions carefully, think about the problems seriously, and when doing homework, they should first try to get it right and well, and then try to finish it quickly. Usually, we should urge children to "review the questions three times before writing" and cultivate the good habit of reviewing the questions carefully.

3. Prepare a collection of wrong questions for your child. When a child makes mistakes in his homework due to carelessness, you may ask him to record the mistakes in a wrong-answer collection, analyze the reasons for the mistakes with him, and find out the pattern. This method is very helpful in helping children recognize the harm of carelessness and increase their awareness of correcting careless shortcomings.

4. Use goals to motivate your children. You can work with your child to set short-term goals to reduce the number of "×" and support them with incentives. For example: There are five "×"s on the homework book this week or today, and next week or tomorrow you are required to reduce one "×" until all the "×"s are gone. Give spiritual or material rewards every time a goal is achieved. This method of using goals to motivate children can also help children gradually and eventually eliminate mistakes caused by carelessness, and develop good habits of being careful and conscientious.