Helping with my child’s homework. What do I do?

Have you heard of the Brain Game by Dr Kawashima? It is a game available on Nintendo DS players that is supposed to keep your brain young by giving questions and puzzles to solve.

Anything that encourages brain activity in the over 30s has to be a good thing. Often at this stage of life our brains are depleting of their capacity just due to lack of use and nothing more. Well, what would you say if we told you that you could have a really good brain work out, but by doing something far more constructive than wasting your precious time on a children’s hand held gamer?/ plastic toy? No, we mean an activity that would benefit your cognitive functioning while also being of great benefit to your child.

Maybe you are a parent who quite enjoyed maths at school, all those years ago, and you find yourself wanting to help your child with their homework [ data shows that children helped by intervening parental support progress far quicker than those not ]. But, although you remember maths as a fun challenge, you need a little assistance with the specifics.

Well, we can help here too! Braintree Tutors can offer you a tailor made refresher course for parents that want to get involved with their kids work. If you know exactly what you need to refresh, we can help you! If you’re not exactly sure, we can guide you! We’ll deal with all the areas that you need to be reminded about, and we’ll simplify to you what may seem a confusing curriculum and show you the best ways of getting a topic across to your child. You can ask the questions you want to and don’t worry, there won’t be children in your lessons, so you can relax and enjoy yourself! It’s far easier than you think and getting involved in a positive way will make homework more fun for your child. Your kids will know that help is at hand when they need it! . It will benefit your cognitive functioning too by giving your grey matter a real work out.

So now your child won’t be able to utter those famous words heard by parents in every household across the land…”We don’t do it like that at school, you’re teaching me it all wrong!” Well…not any more; get in touch and find out!