My daughter (second grade of junior high school) is a good student, but she has a lot to do and she studies long at night. There is trouble getting up in the morning. More and more often, after returning from school, he goes to bed, then gets up and learns again. Do all junior high school students live like that or do they cope differently? As? My daughter has time for herself only during the holidays, because even for the holidays they always have something assigned - now they have to read and prepare for two tests. I'm starting to worry about her he alth. There is no way to change school, because here he has friends. They only meet at school, but it's also important.
Indeed, lower secondary school students, if they are conscientious, have a lot of work. They organize this work differently. Knowing how to schedule your time is a difficult art. Maybe with your help we could improve something here? Studying at night is not a good idea. You can already see the first effects of lack of sleep. The daughter sleeps too little at night, so she has to sleep during the day. As he sleeps during the day, he goes to study in the evening. By the time she finishes her work, it's getting deep into the night. As a result, he sleeps too short … and so on. First step: this rhythm has to be interrupted. Installment sleep is not recommended at any age. Step two: help your daughter plan the activities. Analyze the next days of the week. Take a look at what time he comes back from school and determine how much time is left to use. It is known that apart from studying, there are also other small duties (keeping order and cleanliness, taking the dog for a walk, taking the newspaper to your aunt, etc.). It is also known that everyone must have time to rest, contact with family, develop extracurricular interests, etc. It is not easy to fit it all into the sixteen hours daily, but you have to try. It will probably turn out that longer trips, shopping and visits are only possible on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. A junior high school student uses up to an hour and a half a day to do homework. The effort saves doing homework for the day. No time is wasted on reminding the topic then. The most difficult thing is to plan time-consuming work (reading a reading, preparing a presentation, paper, etc.), which are asked well in advance. Most students start with them at the last minute. And it loses them. Try to watch together to schedule the preparation of such works. And step three: Contact your parentsof the daughter's peers. Find out if their children are in such trouble too. If during the interviews it turns out that in your opinion the children are asked too much, go to school. In the second year of lower secondary school (not counting the time for interest clubs), students spend up to thirty-three hours a week, and often two more hours to supplement a language. In Poland, there is a forty-hour working week, so it is difficult to require children to work more than fifty hours. Ask teachers to do less time-consuming homework and to communicate with each other on the matter. I wish you good luck. B.
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Barbara Śreniowska-SzafranEducator with many years of experience.
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