All About Working With Children Who Are Weak Academically
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sleepy:
My girl is more super. Slow in eating, doing homework and settling down to study. She also got distracted easily and can't focus. I have to keep her company until 12pm almost every day to make sure she finishes her homework before she goes to bed. However, she can talk fast and talk a lot. She can also play fast and play a lot. :slapshead:
Precisely! Our girls are exactly the same!rains:
I finally found someone who shares the same situation!
My girl is also a slow coach: slow in eating, bathing, changing clothes, settling down to study, if she's gone out for enrichment lesson, the day is as good as gone. Even on normal school days, she takes 3 hours to settle herself down before starting to do work.
With a child like that, we can only resign ourselves to fate.
We mummies 同病相怜 :hugs: -
Same same! When it comes to reading storybooks or play computer games, my girl is super on-task, but she is easily distracted when it comes to studying!
I think such kids share common traits lah ie. selective slowness in tasks they do not delight in.mummy so kiasu:
My girl is more super. Slow in eating, doing homework and settling down to study. She also got distracted easily and can't focus. I have to keep her company until 12pm almost every day to make sure she finishes her homework before she goes to bed. However, she can talk fast and talk a lot. She can also play fast and play a lot. :slapshead:[/quote]
Precisely! Our girls are exactly the same!sleepy:
[quote=\"rains\"]I finally found someone who shares the same situation!
My girl is also a slow coach: slow in eating, bathing, changing clothes, settling down to study, if she's gone out for enrichment lesson, the day is as good as gone. Even on normal school days, she takes 3 hours to settle herself down before starting to do work.
With a child like that, we can only resign ourselves to fate.
We mummies 同病相怜 :hugs: -
All these traits fit in exactly as the one i have at home, my dd.
She is now at jc2. During psle 2006, she was slag in her studies, i had no choice but to dsa her to a girls’ school. She chiong only 3 wks from psle and surprised me and my wife with her T-score.
From yr 1-yr 5, totally not interested in her studies, only talk about music, arts, photography, sports, computer and guys. Her teachers took her to task for open disobedience. She always says that girls cannot be too clever otherwise its difficult to get good guys. Now in her final yr, she has no choice but chiong for a place in uni. Fortunately for her, she woke up her bloody idea since end july. All these while, i hve shown patience and give alot of motivation and guidance but little nagging. She has appreciated it.
So folks, no worries! -
for some children, seems like u need to allow them to ‘fall hard’ and then get back on their feet themselves. sometimes adults encourage too much and cushion their fall too much, kids are often well-protected. sometimes it is ok to let kids fail their papers once or twice. if the child is sensible enough, he/she will know what to do to prevent the next failure.
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Original Title: what do u do when ur child doesnt not perform academically?
what do u do when ur child doesnt excel in his or her studies? my definition is getting less than 80 marks. -
aiyo, my girl is same too. just cant do math n sci a bit better but not as easily as languages
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ya i agree. i was happy to drop math n sci durg my Jc and uni days
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24hr-mum:
what do u do when ur child doesnt excel in his or her studies? my definition is getting less than 80 marks.
How is it that getting less than 80 marks an indication of not excelling in studies? I am assuming it's primary level. Is it a one-off result or consistently below 80? What is your expected high and your lowest?
Know your child's strengths and weaknesses then set realistic target. Know their interests, talents and potentials and work on them to achieve their goals.
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Hi 24hrmum,
Without using 80 as a benchmark, how is she performing as compared to cohort? 80 is sometimes not a good indication. Eg. if 50% of the cohort fail maths and highest in class is only 80, if the child gets 70, it's actually good.
I have a different problem. My P5 dd is strong in maths and science. But her language is the opposite.... Her CL is still do-able (can manage above 80) but the EL is her biggest challenge now as she is around 60 range. So that pulls down her average... While we are :xedfingers: that she will maintain her strength in those that she is good at... we need to build her EL to hopefully at least 70+ range. She is sitting for PSLE next year.
Maybe those good in language tend to be weaker in maths and science and vice versa???? -
i hvnt got rpt bk so duno cohort ave. shes in 2nd class. but her frds tat i know r at least 85, many 90+
her marks tis sa is 77 sci, math 72, eng 81.5, ch 84.5. no band 1 at all.
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