How to Help Your Child with Homework

There are many ways to make it easier for your child to do homework every night, even if you can not be there at the time you do your homework.

There are many ways to make it easier for your child to do homework every night, even if you can not be there at the time you do your homework. These tips offer several ideas and also describe the steps you can take if the child has difficulty with homework during the school year.

Homework: It's the whole family's business

Scientific research clearly demonstrates that children are much more apt to succeed in learning when their families actively support them. When families read with their children, talk with their teachers, participate in school or other educational activities and help them with their homework, they give them a great advantage.

Homework represents an opportunity for children to learn and for families to participate in their children's education. However, helping with homework is not always easy. At parent-teacher conferences and individual parent conferences, teachers often hear questions such as:

How can I get Carlos to do his homework? Every night is the same struggle to turn off the TV and start doing your homework.

Why do not you give Maria more homework?
Why do they assign so much homework to Julian?
At what time is Maricela supposed to do the homework? She takes piano lessons, sings in the church choir, plays basketball and helps with chores around the house. He has almost no time to study.
How can I help Roberto with his math homework when I do not understand it?
Does the task really help to learn better?

This article attempts to answer these and other questions, the questions that parents and other family members or guardians of children in primary and secondary school often raise about homework. It also contains practical ideas to help children complete their tasks successfully.

The article contains the following sections:

Core items

Why do teachers assign homework?
How does the homework help the children learn?
How much homework is the right amount?