How to make the kids study? (A-Levels)

Member Name: tas1

Product:	A-Levels
Date:	20/06/01 (71 review reads)
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I am not a parent who has children old enough to sit their A level exams. However, I ‘am’ a parent and it has not been long since I sat exams, and I know how my parents went about it. Having a child of my own now and having gone through what I did during my exams has given me some ideas about what I will do when my daughter is old enough to sit her exams.

A levels I believe are 'the' most important and hardest exams, but all exas are exams so as parents we should provide a good base for our children early on so that they dowel in all exams.

Firstly, being a parent you have a big responsibility in pointing your children in the right direction. Young children do not know what is best for them, it is our responsibility as parents to teach them. We have to lay the foundations and they are strong foundations, then there is less chance of there being any problems later on. Education is very important to me. I have a degree and still hope to continue studying further in the future. Not only does education get you a good job, but it teaches many other things to, like how to mix with different people, how to mix with people of different ages, it teaches you respect for others and also makes you broader minded. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that those people who are not educated don’t have these qualities. Some of my close relatives are not that educated but have all these qualities. It’s just that I personally feel that education is important and will want it to be important to my children.

I grew up in a house where there was a lot of emphasis on reading, but also being a female there was also a lot of emphasis on me learning household tasks such as cooking. I managed to spend enough time on both so I learned to cook, sew, clean etc and also got an education. I don’t regret any of the things my parents did or said during those years and I am very happy with all that I learnt. However, I will want
to teach all these things to my children too but in a different way.

I feel that it is never too early to read to your child. Children begin to recognise sounds very early on. They recognise their name from about 6/7 months or maybe earlier. I feel that we as parents should read to our children from a young age. Also, younger children are intelligent, at a young age children can learn much more than they do at an older age. I can give my own example, by the age of 5 I could fluently speak two languages, English and my mother tongue. At eleven I started to learn French at school, I didn’t do bad in my GCSE’s but it wasn’t easy to learn. I never managed to speak it fluently and I can’t remember all that I learned, only bits of it. What I want to say is that it is easier to teach children under the age of ten. I believe that we should concentrate on our children at that stage in their life and teach them all the good we can. We should teach them the importance of education, and develop an interest in them towards education. All children are not interested in books, some have other interests and there is nothing wrong with that. The earlier on we realise as parents, where the interests of our children lie, the earlier we can push our children in the right direction.

My main point is that there is no point in shouting at our children to do homework or study for exams, when they are 16 / 17/ 18/ 21 etc. At that age they should take responsibility, parents can’t sit the exam for them they have to do it themselves. They know at that age that if they don’t study they will not do well. Our responsibility as parents is earlier on when our kids don’t know. We have to push them at earlier ages. For example telling a child to do homework at the age of eight or ten is worthwhile because that child is young and after a little push s/he most probably will listen and will do his/ her work.

To conclude, my sugge
stion is start early on it may help later on.

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