Parents role in doing the homework
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After walking through the hot emotional fires of Homework Hell, parents also develop conditioned emotional responses to the homework process. It feels like a phobia. They begin to feel like their child’s lack of success reflects upon them and thus they feel like failures as parents. This manifests in feelings of frustration, anger, depression and anxiety.
In order to break this destructive cycle, one has to focus on the emotional dynamics that drive this chain reaction rather than on the intellectual content of the homework itself. When the emotional issues for both parent and child are resolved there are often dramatic improvements in the apparent academic skills.
