Teach Your Teen How to Stop Procrastinating Homework.
Why Do Students Procrastinate? Students often procrastinate because they don’t see how a project is relevant or important to them, don’t understand the material, or just don’t know how to get started. When you boil it down, procrastination is a combination of motivation, confidence, and comprehension issues.So, if you’re doing your literature and physics homework at the same time, the odds are that you won’t be able to fully concentrate on either of them. If you want to beat procrastination, you should stick with one task at a time. This way, your homework won’t seem as overwhelming to you as it did before.Procrastination is something that most people have at least a little experience with. No matter how well-organized and committed you are, chances are that you have found yourself frittering away hours on trivial pursuits (watching TV, updating your Facebook status, shopping online) when you should have been spending that time on work or school-related projects.
The procrastination cycle affects us all (or “It’s not just you, kid”) You know what I mean by the procrastination cycle, right? Say your son has a tough homework assignment. About geometry theorems. It seemed pretty complicated in class. He doesn’t get it right away, so he decides to put it off. Later that evening comes. He puts it off.All students struggle with procrastination at one time or another. Whether it’s putting off a project until the last minute or waiting to study for a big test until the night before, procrastination can lead to stress, frustration, and poor grades. Students who procrastinate until the last minute tend to do much worse on assignments than.
Procrastination is really about delaying feeling bad so you can feel good right now! There are all kinds of situations where kids might procrastinate: Large projects with no clear starting point; Having to do chores or household responsibilities; Starting or completing homework; Difficult conversations; Performances where failure is a fear.
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