Breaking Your Child’s Bad Homework Habits: 4 Simple Solutions to Help Your Easily Frustrated Kid

Some kids are naturally easy-going, compliant, and adaptable. With very little input from you, they come home from school, sit right down, and do their homework. If they encounter a problem they can’t solve, or read a passage they don’t understand, they’re able to ask for help. Other kids are not as even-keeled. Their moods . . . → Read More: Breaking Your Child’s Bad Homework Habits: 4 Simple Solutions to Help Your Easily Frustrated Kid

Build Routines Now

Take advantage of the last few weeks of summer before school begins and start building some good routines now.

Start by identifying the behavior that most negatively impacts the school year. Are they continually late? Forgetting things or losing them?

Once you have a problem identified, you can begin to help your child solve it. . . . → Read More: Build Routines Now

Keep Them Busy

We used to have these neighbors down the street who owned a German Shepherd named Guinness. Like a lot of German Shepherds I’ve known, Guinness was smart, agile, and easily bored.

As a result, he would often leave home in search of something to do. he often ended up at our house, because, well, he . . . → Read More: Keep Them Busy