The intervention of mom and dad can sometimes be harmful and create conflicts. High expectations can interfere with the learning process. It is talked about in the Corriere Salute on newsstands for free with the Corriere della Sera on Thursday 15
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With the resumption of school activities, as every year, that ofwhether homework is useful or not, their impact on the level of learning and potentially also their influence on some variables of children’s health. And then there is the question of whether or not parents are involved in carrying out the tasks. A study published in the Journal of Research in Childhood Education concluded that parental involvement in following the homework of elementary school children it would not seem to have any effect on the level of achievement at school, both as regards the field of reading and as regards that of mathematics. The research was carried out retrospectively, using US national data from 1997 to 2011, and in the data analysis took into account variables such as the socioeconomic status of the family and the cultural level of the parents.. His results seem to contradict common sense, given that intuitively the help of parents at home should represent a kind of reinforcement of what is done at school by the teacher. But according to the authors of this research, coordinated by Katerina Bodovski of Pennsylvania State University’s Educational Policy Studies, it is possible to hypothesize some explanations for what has been observed.
For example, doing homework together could be source of conflicts in the family and therefore ultimately does not lead to those positive results that might be expected; or it is likely that i parents end up doing their homework themselves in order to have more free time for everyone, instead of trying to stimulate the child to try to go it alone. Or there are cases in which parents can put all their good will into play but without having the teaching skills necessary for the new generations to study. Not to mention that mothers and fathers with too high expectations they can generate in children negative reactions to the whole learning process.
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