Homeschooling a reluctant student (How to have a better week)
Need some help with your reluctant student? You know the kind, the one who is not a self-starter. Stares at their work. Doesn’t ever seem to get anything done. At the end of the week, you are grounding them for not getting all their schoolwork finished. Here are a few strategies for how to have a better week, or even a better tomorrow, as the case may be. Many of these strategies are directly from the Charlotte Mason Method. I have another article on this topic here . Look at the workload Is your son or daughter studying 6 or 7 subjects each day? Are they spending a long time on one subject? Your student may be burned out. For a young child, a lesson should not take more than 20 minutes. For an older student, you should be aiming for 30-45 minutes spent on each subject. Set a timer so they know they are through when the timer sounds. Look at the actual subject and see if you’ve assigned too much. If they are doing Saxon Math, assign 15 problems instead of 30, that means the...
