Reply to How to know if your child is bored b/c he's smart or just b/c...

Forum Index » Elementary School-Aged Kids

Reply to "How to know if your child is bored b/c he's smart or just b/c..."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]You might want to read this article to see if it resonates:

The Inverse Power of Praise
http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

You might also want to ask your son questions that help him focus on the interesting or fun parts of his day.  Or even a particular aspect of his day.

For example:

Did you have reading group today?  What was the most interesting part about that?  Nothing?  Really?  If you had to pick one thing, what would it be?

Are you still doing bouyancy in science?  Who was your partner today?  What did you all do?

Many kids say "nothing" or "it was boring" when you ask about their day in school in part because it's too open-ended and they're too tired to do the work to think about it.  Make things easier by asking more specific questions.  Maybe that will resonate more and help him focus on the parts of his day that were fun (beyond lunch, recess and gym).

To do this best, it helps to know specifics about what the kids are working on in school.  DD's second grade teacher sends a newsletter home each week with a short paragraph about what they're doing in math, reading and science.  The concepts all seem very easy on the newsletter, but when we dig in with DD and ask specific questions, she focuses in on the more interesting applications she did with her small group.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics