Tips to prevent children's failures
After a long course, without getting the expected performance, it's time to study in the summer months to recover the pending subjects. However, it is important to act before the arrival of suspense. And, if it's already too late we should raise children's awareness to prevent bad grades and prevent it from happening again next year.
Given the bad grades, not only is it important to act for recoveries, prevent children's failures and to repeat the situation is equally or more important.
Many families meet each summer with the same problem. The holidays arrive, and with them the bad grades, the dislikes and the months of heat and study. There are many fathers and mothers who question why they have not done it during the course?
And is that bad grades are a very widespread reality, and it is essential to promote a change of attitude in our children, promoting the development of study strategies and improving the school performance of children.
The bad grades. Why does not my son study?
Year after year, every summer we find ourselves with the same situation, bad grades. The bad grades are accompanied by disappointments, fights, and two months of very hot and much study. Many times we ask ourselves why they have not done it before? And in this way we avoid disappointment, we avoid a study vacation.
The reasons that underlie poor school grades are diverse. In general, they all have a common reference to a lack of interest and motivation that prevents them from performing. The lack of interest and motivation will directly affect aspects as diverse as:
- Lack of concentration.
- Little capacity for effort.
- Procrastination, or I'll leave it for later, I'll study tomorrow. The act of postponing.
- No or little planning of the study.
- Lack of study habit.
And in the end all this situation triggers in the feared suspense and everything that they entail.
Is it possible to avoid bad grades?
We usually deal with bad grades when these are already a reality. When we have the qualifications, in those moments we take care of studying during the summer and we try to get the pending subjects. However, it is possible to avoid bad grades. It is convenient to prevent the situation before the suspense arrives.
It is possible to avoid bad grades, if we help them to become aware of their studies and to be responsible for their own learning we will be able to prevent failures. Some tips to avoid bad grades:
1. Communication and dialogue are fundamental. As the basis of all understanding. It is very important to make an active listening, that is, not only what they tell us with words, but also to listen to what they feel and that they probably do not know how to tell us. Your fears, your worries, your frustrations and your way of responding to them.
2. Teach them to take responsibility for their obligations. Studying is your main obligation, it is fundamental that from small we help them to be responsible.
3. It is very important to encourage active study. Only if they are active protagonists of their learning will they be more involved and they will be able to create their own learning.
4. Help them develop a schedule of their study time. It is very important that they comply with this study plan.
5. Teach them the importance of effort capacity, do not give them everything done.
6. Strengthen your achievements. It is not about reinforcing your good grades, but reinforcing your work. When they do well, we reinforce them, even if the results are not good.
Celia Rodríguez Ruiz. Clinical health psychologist. Specialist in pedagogy and child and youth psychology. Director of Educa and Learn.
Author of the collection Stimulate Reading and Writing Processes.
