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A Parent's Guide to Supporting Students: Homework Help Without Stress

This guide offers parents effective strategies for assisting their children with homework while maintaining a calm and supportive environment. It addresses various student types—procrastinators, anxious students, and more—providing insights into how to engage without overwhelming. Discover tips from students on what they truly need from parents, including the importance of trust, encouragement, and giving them space to manage their studies. This resource is designed to help parents foster a positive approach to education and support their children in becoming self-directed learners.

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A Parent's Guide to Supporting Students: Homework Help Without Stress

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  1. Homework A Parent’s Guide To Helping Out Without Freaking Out Neil McNerney, LPC www.neilmcnerney.com

  2. Student Approach To School The It’s Not My Fault Student The Procrastinator The Defiant Student The Responsible Student The Unmotivated The Blamer The Anxious Student The Disorganized

  3. Parent Leadership Roles Supporter Consultant Boss

  4. Supporter • Hit and Run Praise • Don’t Over-Do It

  5. The Consultant

  6. Consultant • Tentative • Shoulder – to – Shoulder • Attitude of Child

  7. Boss Start or Stop Behavior? Punishment Reward Stop Start

  8. Leadership • Blamer • Complainer • Defiant • Disorganized • Worried • Sneaky • Unmotivated • Procrastinator • Supporter • Consultant • Boss

  9. Study Skill Myths

  10. Staff Trainings • PTA/PTO Parent Presentations

  11. Students were asked: If you could tell your parent one thing about schoolwork and how they could be more helpful, what would it be? This is what they said…

  12. Help only when I ask for it.

  13. If I’m not freaking out, you don’t have to, either.

  14. Keep my sister out of my room.

  15. Don't nag me. I know I need to do it.

  16. Back off when I don’t get an A.

  17. Stop worrying about when I start my projects or when I finish them.

  18. Don’t remind me about my projects every five minutes.

  19. Encourage me rather than scold me.

  20. Don’t tell me right when I get home from SEVEN HOURS OF SCHOOL to do more work. Give me a break, then I’ll do it.

  21. I wish my parents understood that sometimes my friends ARE more important than homework

  22. Stop checking the school website because you think I’m lying about my homework Trust me a little more

  23. Stop making me redo math problems.

  24. Trust me a little more. Even though I don’t want to, I will do my homework because I don’t want a lower grade.

  25. Back off when I don’t get an A.

  26. Trust me and let me do what I want. Trust me that I want to get good grades too.

  27. Trust me

  28. Believe in me

  29. Trust me

  30. Believe in me

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