Being there for your kids - Stay at home school made easy.

Episode Date: May 2, 2020

So, you don't have enough to do? Now, with stay-at-home orders, you have to collar your kids to do their on-line schoolwork as well? Can we get back to normal yet? If you have these questions, you are not alone. I've compiled a list of my top ten tips for parents helping kids with schoolwork, whether its just homework, online, or full out home schooling. Keep these things in mind as you make the best out of difficult circumstances, while also building a positive relationship with your forever child.

Hi, I'm Dr. John Robinson, and this is Teachable Moments. You know, my recent podcasts highlighting my top 10 tips for healthy parenting, were so well received, both on the air and in print form from my website, that I have now developed my top 10 tips for helping your child with homework and with school. School has come a long way from the one-room schoolhouses on the prairie in the wild west of the late 1800s. Nowadays, school is as much a concept and a thought process, as it is a place. From daycare to preschool to primary, elementary, middle, and high school grades, the varieties of experience are enormous. With current shelter-in-place provisions to contain the

pandemic, school has regressed somewhat to the one-room schoolhouse days, except now with many more resources to help school be a unique experience for our children. As parents, in a variety of circumstances, how do we navigate these unique, stressful waters of modified schooling for our kids. What's most important for you in being your child's substitute teacher? Here are my top 10 tips to help you be there for your child, whether it's just helping with homework or being full-time homeschooled teacher to them. Number one, always start where your child is. Help him get past the barriers. Number two, allow at least five to ten minutes of transition both at the beginning and end of a homework or homeschooling time.

3. Structure, routine, and muscle memory. These are the tools for academic and life success. 4. Earn respect with active listening, healthy boundaries, and direction. 5. Relationship. It's the 4th R of schooling. 6. Building character and developing a growth rhythm, set the tone. 7. Context for learning. What else is going on? Why now? 8. Start with your child's strengths and strength. help them use what works to impact and improve their weaknesses. Nine, reframe failures to be also blessings in disguise, and ten, draw on and draw in other

resources in your child's schooling. These 10 tips will help you stay the course, give your child a memorable, impactful school experience, and continue building healthy relationships. Each tip sets the tone for teachable moments. I'm Dr. Jonathan C. Robinson, licensed clinical science. psychologist and Christian author of Teachable Moments, Building Blocks of Christian Parenting. And this has been Teachable Moments. Teachable Moments, Building Blocks of Christian Parenting, is available online at Amazonbooks.com and in local and national bookstores.

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