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Name: Great Homeschool Conventions (Columbus)
Start: 2025-04-24T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-26T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Columbus, OH

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This topic has 3 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 15 years ago by Sonya Shafer.

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December 5, 2009 at 12:05 am
moralesml
Participant
Hi again!
Looking for some advice… we are working on the habit of attention and I would like to know how some of you might handle situations where your child/ren dawdle over their lessons? I have taken the lesson and moved on to a different subject, only to be met with tears and complaints because he didn’t get to finish the last thing! Things were going so well at the beginning of our school year and now I am at my wits end! Does anyone else struggle with this? And, how do you deal with it? I appreciate any help.
Monica
December 5, 2009 at 2:45 am
mrsjamiesouth
Member
My biggest problem is with math. I give him 20-35 minutes for math and at the end I collect his work and we move on. I started making him complete it after school was over before he could go outside, but somedays he would still sit for hours, and I knew this wasn’t really helping break the dawdling, I was just letting him do it on his own time instead of mine. So, now I make him complete it before he can eat lunch. It is amazing how fast he can now complete it. We do school right up to lunch time, so he has to work while the rest of us eat. He almost always completes it in the original time frame now.
December 7, 2009 at 10:32 pm
moralesml
Participant
Thank you Mrsjamiesouth, for your reply.
May I ask, do you (or anyone else reading this ) find yourself needing to remove the lesson and going on to something else? If so, practically speaking, how do you do this? Is there anything specific and helpful that you might say? I find that maybe my son seems to think I am upset and he is being punished by not being allowed to finish.
Thank you for your advice.
December 8, 2009 at 1:25 am
Sonya Shafer
Moderator
It might help to say something that reassures him that you’re trying to help, that you’re on his side. For example, “It looks like your brain might be ready for a little break,” or “I think your brain would be happier if we do something else for a few minutes, then come back to this one.”