have felt loss at what to do other than nagging and yelling,
are running out of ideas to get your child take ownership of his/her own work,
are angry with yourself because you care more than your child about that half-assed, half-done assignment,
it’s time to implement the SFF (Start.Focus.Finish) system.
You don’t understand why is starting,
staying focused and
finishing homework so hard for your child and every day is a constant battle against wills!
You are seething with anger coming home after a hard day at work, then see your child relaxing on the sofa, surfing youtube brainrot (and what the heck is skibbidi toilet?!) and he/she has homework not done, spelling not learnt, piano not practiced, still stewing in his sweaty PE attire, not bathed… and you wonder how on earth did your child waste all this time after school.
What makes you riled you up is the heck-care attitude and the fact that you care more about his/her work than your child does.
Every evening, it is a relentless race against time trying to get your child to finish homework and learn his/he spelling and tingxie (Mother Tongue spelling) and this frenzied state of affairs is making you feel frazzled, overwhelmed and stressed!!
The truth is… you are worried more than angry
because you KNOW time is precious and you fear your child is going to fall behind if he/she doesn’t use the time wisely to do homework and/or additional revision.
You also have an uneasy feeling in the pit of your stomach that you are fast running out of ideas to get your child to take ownership of the work.
If your child is like that now at primary school, how are you going to cajole, nag or punish your child into doing the work? And you secretly fear… what if my child NEVER wants to do work on his/her own? What if he/she will ALWAYS need me to sit beside him and push and push to write every single word?
4 years ago, I was exactly in your position. My son would be an angel at school and then come home and unleash all his fury on me, usually triggered by my nagging to get him to do homework.
He would be so angry at doing Chinese copywork (xi2 zi4) and learning Chinese spelling that he would tear the paper, scream and cry. It was so difficult every afternoon because I would have to first endure his tantrums, scold him for provoking his sisters because he was angry, then still make him sit and finish his homework. If I left his side, he would not do his work.
We suspected he had ADHD but he was not diagnosed then so it was all up to me to figure out a way to help him calm down, get used to a structure and motivate him to finish the work. And then train him to do all those independently. I had to learn on the job and fortunately, my background in psychology and teacher training came in handy.
Things have changed so much now for us and he can take out his work and finish it independently. Life at home is so much calmer and easy when you don't need to keep pushing and reminding little people to do their work every.single.afternoon!
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Start.Focus.Finish System
Understand your distracted child’s unique mind and hidden superpower
Go from meltdown to motivated
Do this 1 thing that will calm the big emotional meltdowns
Come up with a simple, repeatable process to coach your child to finish homework independently
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