How to support children when they found a block in the learning processes, when they just, couldn’t, do well in school, translated…
After school, I saw my child with his head hung down upset, as he got into the car. From how he used to act, started talking incessantly, telling me what happened at school, this was quite odd, so I’d asked him, “What’s the matter?”
“The physical science lessons are really getting hard, I’d taken the notes very carefully, but I can’t quite understand what I’d written down, and my quiz scores were really…………”, there’s that look of helplessness on his child-like face.
“okay, let’s think of a way to solve this.”, he’d taken a short break as we arrived home, my wife immediately googled online for the teaching resources, and found the online learning sessions of the same chapter that my son was having troubles with, my son’s eyes lit up, immediately sat himself down, and listened to the YouTuber, and his tenseness became, more, relaxed then, in the end, he’d nodded, “so, that’s, how it, works………”
stuck on a problem like this???
I’d recalled that when my eldest was in her final year of middle school, and she always got stuck on how she could never make an A on the mock mathematics exams, the homeroom instructor felt bad for her, and was worried over her, and my daughter worked very hard already. And so I’d asked her, ‘do you want to go to cram school with your classmate and give it a try?”
In the end, she’d gone to a tutoring session with a fellow student who is good in math, and the tutor was willing to answer the assortment of weird questions that she’d had, and slowly, it’d, helped untied that knot in her head, and she’d started, making better grades steadily.
You want to break through in learning, you must first know what you needed to work on, and so long as you’re willing to put in the time, there will always be ways to resolve the difficulties; as parents, we should NOT push the kids with the grades, we must empathize that our child is having a difficult time, and stand with them, to give them the support they needed, and, everything will be resolved afterwards.
jumbled up in the brains like this???
This is this parent’s experience, and this may sound easy, but in this Asian society, where EVERYTHING is focused, solely on the grades, it’s easy for the parents to forget, that they needed to give their young the EMOTIONAL supports they’d needed, instead of grilling our young, when they’d, scored at the bottom placements of the whole class’s grades.
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