The Right Way to Help Kids With Homework
The Atlantic Focus on prioritization and process, not the assignment itself. Lucy Jones So much of the homework advice parents are given is theory-based, and therefore not entirely helpful in the chaos of day-to-day life. People are told that students should have “grit.” They should “learn from failure.” But it’s hard to know how to implement these ideas when what you really need is to support a kid who has a chemistry test and two papers due in the next 48 hours but seems to be focused only on Instagram. Some parents manage to guide their kids through these moments with relative ea...
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