Tips To Encourage Good Study Habits In a Child


  • Be a good role model. If you sometimes bring work home with you or you're taking a course yourself, your child will learn your habits. Make 'em good!

  • Help your child organize things. For example, the protractor and compass belong in the math binder, sheet music in the violin case.

  • Help him or her organize space. The kitchen table is for eating; your child's desk is for studying.

  • Help your child organize time. Establish a routine for completing schoolwork. It doesn't have to be the minute your child walks in the door; just agree on a set time and stick to it.

  • Minimize distractions. Thirteen-year-old wisdom notwithstanding, geometric proofs are not better retained when learned concurrently with loud music, "South Park" and a telephone receiver at one ear.

  • Check your child's work. Every night is unnecessary, but check it often enough that he or she knows you might - and that you care.


  • Insist that sloppy or careless work be redone, but don't correct errors; teachers need to know what students don't know.

  • Give praise whenever possible and appropriate. A sincere expression of pride in your child's academic accomplishments can go a long way toward making studying a habit.



  • *Courtesy : www.ehow.com

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