Homework Help for Your Child… and You!

Your child came home with a bad grade. Or two. Or maybe even a few. Now that the disappointment, frustration, and, dare I say anger have subsided a bit, it’s time to make a plan to do better next time.

You can resolve to establish a better routine with defined study and homework times. You can commit to making yourself more available to help with homework and answer questions. You can bring the teachers into your circle of trust and open up those lines of communication. You can, and probably should, do all of those things.

However, often times life gets in the way of your best laid plans. There’s a baseball tournament next week, and your son has two late games and two practices. Your daughter’s play is this weekend, and they are rehearsing late almost every night. Between work, school, extracurriculars, meal-prep, laundry, and a thousand other things we all have to take care of, the important promises you made start to slip through the cracks.

Don’t worry, this is normal. It happens to all of us. It’s happening right now. It’s life, and we are all trying to do the best we can with what we have in each moment. Nobody can juggle all the balls. There are simply too many. Sometimes a ball drops, and we need help from someone who can pick it up and keep it in play for us while we juggle the rest of them. That’s why we have teachers and doctors and coaches and parents and friends. We can’t do it all. We simply need a little help sometimes.

So, back to the child who is feeling dejected right now because they brought home a stinker of a report card. Her head is hanging low. Her self-esteem is shot through with doubt, regret, and guilt. She let you down and she know it and it hurts. You were a kid once. Remember what that feels like? Disappointing your parents? It hurts. It hurt for you when you were eleven, and it hurts for her right now.

Maybe you let her have it last night when you saw the report card. Maybe you gave her both barrels of disappointment and anger. But today is a new day, and it’s a new six weeks. Time to get the help she needs and deserves. She’s a smart kid who needs some assistance in a couple areas, offered in the correct way, in the proper setting.

Huntington Learning Center is the place that will help. Huntington focuses on doing two things, and they do them phenomenally well. They tutor, and they test prep. We’ll leave test prep for another post because right now we are focused on turning the bad grade ship around. Whether your child is in elementary, middle, or high school, whether they are struggling with reading, writing, math, or need to develop good study habits, Huntington can help develop skills, confidence and motivation for any student in any subject regardless of grade.

They understand that no two students learn alike, and therefore tailor their tutoring programs to provide personalized instruction based on each student’s individual needs. Regardless if your child is struggling with poor organization, basic comprehension issues, or difficulties due to ADHD, Huntington will help instill successful habits that will last a lifetime. They will do this in a comfortable and safe environment that is nurturing and welcoming.

They have individual cubes set up so students can focus, as well as glassed-in rooms where students can block out distraction while they learn, study, or test. When I visited, I was pleasantly surprised at how comforting and relaxed the environment is. It reminded me a bit of a university library. A friendly learning place where you can get some serious work done.

Will it work for your child? Huntington has a very strong track record. Over the last forty years, they have developed systems that often see grades improve by two levels or more in reading and math-related subjects. That’s going from an F to a B or even an A! All while saving you the interpersonal conflict of being a drill sergeant to your child and pulling all your hair out.

That’s my biggest take away from discovering Huntington. They take on the work of turning grades around, so you can focus on all the other stuff you have to do. Even better, your child will actually to listen to them because they’re the professionals, not the parents. By the way, they’re better at this than you are, too. Have you ever taken your child and quietly, calmly, with infinite patience, turned an F into an A? Unless you work at Huntington, I doubt it.

So stop worrying, stop arguing, stop getting angry about it. Stop making your child feel bad for getting a bad grade. Call in the pros and get everybody happy again. You can thank me later.

www.HuntingtonHelps.com              817-924-5800