(Collaborative post) This post looks at How To Support Your Child’s Education. Our children spend a large amount of their childhood in full-time education. As parents, it falls on us to provide a level of support to help the process whilst they are not in school.
There will be many times where your child will need a helping hand with their studies. Here we look at How To Support Your Child’s Education. Not only does this help them with their studies, it also works as a great bonding exercise and makes you more accessible if there is something troubling them.
How To Support Your Child’s Education
Schedule Study Time with Your Child
Allocating time each week to go over their studies will keep them motivated for the week ahead. It also shows your child that you care about what they’re learning and how they’re progressing in the class.
Your child is more likely to be open and honest with you if you spend time with them and show that you are interested in their work. Even further down the line they may be motivated by your support to choose the best GCSEs or subject specialisms.
Create Fun Activities You Can Do With Your Child
You can make almost any subject fun if you try. English can become a combination of reading, acting, singing, which are all great to keep kids engaged. Activity books can be created for various subjects. You will find by making something fun it can really boost a child’s ability to learn, remember as well as understand, as they’ll be so captivated by the task at hand.
Creating your own maths activity book is easy enough. Be sure to make it colourful and if you have a laminator make sure you have this ready for your fun project. Don’t forget the whiteboard markers so you can write and rub out answers.
You can also try using a range of apps popular with homeschooling parents and games to make the topic more interesting and enjoyable.
Encourage Open Conversations
Sit down with your child and have casual conversations about their day, friends and other things that they want to discuss. Are there any areas where your child needs guidance? These are perfect opportunities for you to learn more about your child. Ask open questions and let them take center stage in the conversation.
These conversations can be held at any time of day. It could be whilst walking back from school, at the dinner table, on the way to school or when on a day out with the family. There are no particular boundaries to these conversations so long as they are in a safe and comfortable space for your child.
Take part in Extracurricular Activities with Your Child
Schools often have projects or activities where you and your child can get involved in something together. These are often in the form of science projects, like making a volcano with vinegar and bicarbonate of soda, growing crystals, even growing plants.
These collaborative projects give your child a great way to test their communication skills and critical thinking skills while giving them a confidence boost.
Give your child the chance to show what they’ve learnt and how it will benefit them in the future by becoming as involved as you can be in their education. As it’s a crucial part of shaping the next generation it’s important that you are there to support and guide your child through their most life-changing years.
Consider Going Private
If it fits in with your budget you may consider taking your child to a private school. Good private schools will keep you updated on your child’s progress and areas they may need additional support. The teacher may be able to provide extra work in those areas for children to do at home. Alternatively, a tutor may be required in addition to this. It’s normal, I know many that have had children in private school and had tutors too.
Consider Getting a Tutor
Tutors can be a lifesaver for some parents. We don’t all have the time to help out children with topics they are struggling with. A tutor will provide one to one help in their subject of expertise. They can be used to help boost a child to the same level as the rest of the class if they are falling behind. Tutors are also useful when children are preparing for exams and for entrance exams for secondary schools. To prepare for these you would normally start at least one and a half years in advance. And, I’m talking from experience.
Now you’ve read my post, How To Support Your Child’s Education. What do you think would work well for parents to help support their children’s education?
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I try to do a lot of these with my kids. We won’t go private though. Too pricey and too many rules!
Private can be expensive but then having a tutor or even working with your children can greatly benefit them.
Thanks for the ideas for helping my kids learn more. Kids do need extra support with learning.
They can do. Sometimes they have areas they struggle more than others.
This post is really informative, thanks for sharing these tips.
As a teacher I agree with all these ways to support your children. Getting a tutor is sometimes the easiest way to have one on one support.
I’m glad to hear that. A tutor can really help identify and assist in areas the child needs help.
This is a subject near and dear to my heart. I was a teacher and principal for 30 years.
Oh wow, then you’ll know all the tips lol.
It is important to our children to support their education not only financially but for mental physical and emotional needs that they want proper bonding and social activity that makes them happy always while learning.
That’s very true Richelle. It can influence them greatly.
These are timely tips because my eldest son will soon start pre-school. I’m thinking of ways on how to support him and even encourage him when he starts school.
What great timing. I hope this has given you some useful guidance and that he enjoys his pre-school.
Some really useful tips here! I especially like the one about scheduling time to go over studies there is a really useful one especially as everything feels so rushed again these days.
I must admit that after the school day it is difficult to get mine to sit and so anything extra at home with me. I think clubs are a great resource for children and also I can totally see the benefits of tutors.
Clubs can really help children learn new skills and have fun.
I am very present in my kid’s study activities. But I am always looking for new tips to improve it!
That’s good to hear. Some parents show no interest at all which is a shame.
Having open conversations is so important to work out what’s best for the kid. I was always a very independent learner and would study in my own time, but my brother had to have time scheduled in and get his work done before anything else x
Each child is different. It is important to work in a way that best suits and encourages their learning.
Indeed such a great list! I will definitely be sharing this with my mommy friends who are having a hard time dealing with their children’s online classes.
Thanks Anosa. I hope they find this helpful.
Great tips and I am all about a tutor to help the kids with their studies. Private school can be a good option and is something we are considering.
Combining the two can work very well. Private schools – the good ones can really help give kids a head start.
Such great tips! Giving our kids our 100% support in anything or everything they do is important. My son has my 100% support from the beginning.
That’s great to hear, It really affects their mental health having support from parents.
Great tips and I am sure these will be really impactful. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for visiting Louisa.
These are some wonderful ideas. It is so important when it comes to a child’s education. I’m sure tutors can be of great help too.
It really makes a big difference to our children when we show an interest.
I often wondered if parent became better at this with the onset of the pandemic. I would imagine that they did.
I think those that struggled arranged online tuition.
I love giving my kids new opportunities to learn, and new ways to learn to. I’m not very good at being able to teach them academic things, but I can teach them life skills and a love of exploring
Any form of education from parents is a good thing.
I make sure that we set time aside to do school work . When there is no pressure to finish and make sure she can talk to us about anything
It’s best to keep the pressure at a minimum so getting work done straight away is great.
I found that if I spend time studying with my daughter, it really helps to her to stay focused. Even if I am doing my own work, just sitting together helps.
Being there helps. If they know they can ask for help if required it can give them the confidence to complete the work themselves sometimes.
These are all great ways to encourage a child with school. I know it personally helps when kids feel like the parents are involved.
It really does help with children’s bond with their parents.
I have to admit that I am so glad my children are getting older and I have to support them less in their learning. I enjoyed it when they were very young but supporting them as young teens is hard work! lol
I have to agree, that’s normally when tutors are called in to help.
It is so important to stay active in our children’s education. I think it really does show when parents are involved. These are great ideas.
It is pretty obvious when they are getting support.
This is something that people can’t sleep on. Getting your kids taken care of with education is paramount to success.
It really does affect how well they do.
This is so true and thanks for the tips. I kind of struggled last year when my daughters were put into online school because of the pandemic, I wish I would’ve known some of these tips back then. Thanks for sharing!
It was a struggle for most wasn’t it. Glad the schools are open again now.
Yes when we me make education fun, kids will learn and useful.
Making education fun makes them more inclined to do the work required.
We can’t afford private school. If we could have, that would have been my first choice. Fortunately we have a great public school system here. I do my best to support my son in his academics. It has become fun for us to do projects and studying together.
It’s great o hear you are able to support your son with his work. It can be nice just o spend that time together doing something constructive.
What a great post, I’m not a mother but I agree that all these points will help encourage them and due to the pandemic they have suffered but I’m sure having the parents more interested encourages them too.
They really have been affected by the pandemic. Poor things. Helping them where you can really makes a difference.
These are great tips! I think it is so important to support your children’s education and help there where you can.
Thanks Rebecca. It makes a difference to their mental health, confidence and school results.
These are all wonderful tips and I did help with my kids homework and such each and every day… up until they got to middle school and by then they had the process down and could do it all on their own. I had chalkboards and white boards to use to help them with their studies in elementary school and being a part of the process truly makes the difference. My daughter is now straight A’s in college 😉
Boards are great, we use them loads for spellings. Wow, good on her, sounds like she will do well!!!
Really good post, I think enjoying learning with your kids rather than trying to teach them worked for us. Plus hiring a tutor if necessary/ possible. I know my limits and the maths tutor was ace – especially being a cool Uni graduate that loved maths, that certainly helped them love maths too.
I think knowing our limits is important. Sometimes it helps to bring someone in that knows what they are doing to help too.