How To Help Your Child With Homework Today
November 8, 2009 | Snellville, Georgia | Vetting explained
Until your precious child entered daycare, you were like God in their eyes, You changed their diapers. You fed them and tucked them in bed at night. You taught them important things.You protected them .For the first four years in their lives, they looked up to you until that fateful day that you enrolled them in your local educational daycare or kindergarten.
Slowly your infants evolved into computer literate beings. Shortly afterward, they started to show you how to check your emails. A week later, they were programming your satellite TV stations on your brand new hd television. A month later they were texting their friends on your cell phone while you purchased a happy meal at McDonald's for them.
As amazed as you were then, you knew that the day would eventually come when you would no longer be the sun in their universe. Little did you expect it would happen before they were able to drive. Wake up to generation T.
Generation T is the span of Americans born from 1996- 2006. They are the home computer babies. This age group will be able to process everyday problems with more ease than you were able to do when you were in grammer school. Wow !
2010 is going to be an awaking year for the young parents who have children in any educating institution. Be it daycare, kindergarten, elementary or middle school.
Your young ones have been exposed to technology everyday, and they are not taking you with them. Within four, six, ten years you won't be able to hold a conversation with them at breakfast....
They will do quiet well until that fateful day when they return from school with some homework. All of a sudden they will look to you, like they did as your baby, to help them....Now What In the Heck To Do ?
They are adding fractions in the third grade. Doing Algebra by the 5th grade and writing books by the eighth. You might ask yourself , what ever happened to the paper volcano science projects like the ones you did back then, well they're history.
O.K. parents listen up...God is good and you don't have to try to be him.
Use technology to help you when your child needs assistance on their homework.
If Billy has a problem with multiplication....Google "Multiplication Tables". Heck Sherry questions your answer about compound sentences, not a problem, simply go to Yahoo and search with her a better explanation. Below are a few websites that every parent should include on their computer as a new favorite item:
www.softschool.com http://www.softschool.com/
http://students.resa.net/stoutcomputerclass/2la.htm
With the help of the same technology that separated you from your baby in the first place, it will slowly help bring you two back together again, before they ask to use your car.
In short, today's parents must come to the reality that your children today are exposed to more information than you were at their age. Weather or not they are smarter than you is another question.
However, most of them will always need the love, attention and the praise of mom and dad....so one would hope.
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