Me Time!

[ammonite]

Funz:

Imp75:

Even PTM speech also type on HP and read out. Homework also use HP to do draft work.

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Same with DD. Told her off one evening when she was staring and typing so intensely on her phone. She told me she was doing her homework and showed me what she was typing. I :faint: . She was doing her Lit homework on her phone. Asked her why doesn't she just use the laptop and she said troublesome.

I can't take it. It is so bad for the eyes. The opthalmologist also warned about it, not that i need her to tell me it is bad. It is one of the things that will really make me blow up at the kids.

[starlight1968sg]

Raining at Hillview

[sharonkhoo]

ammonite:

Funz:

[quote=\"Imp75\"]Even PTM speech also type on HP and read out. Homework also use HP to do draft work.

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Same with DD. Told her off one evening when she was staring and typing so intensely on her phone. She told me she was doing her homework and showed me what she was typing. I :faint: . She was doing her Lit homework on her phone. Asked her why doesn't she just use the laptop and she said troublesome.

I can't take it. It is so bad for the eyes. The opthalmologist also warned about it, not that i need her to tell me it is bad. It is one of the things that will really make me blow up at the kids.[/quote]I wouldn't allow this - bad for eyes, and also for posture and higher risk of RSI. Also, phones are mostly for leisure and communication, and doesn't mesh well with more \"serious\" purposes, especially with constant messages coming in. I prefer my kids to do work on their computers.

[sharonkhoo]

MrsKiasu:

Mine also never follow plans so total waste of time to plan. Teachers say must read text books and notes given by school and dd never do that..good that we know it after ptc..too late already for a lot of things :sad: hopefully both of us learned something and able to sustain it

I must be blunt here - if your daughter was doing very well without planning, then perhaps you can forget making plans. For me, the habit of planning and getting work done on schedule is important enough that I insisted on both my girls learning to plan, even the one who sailed through academically. But since your daughter isn't doing that well, and she's still young enough for you to influence her, I think you should still make an effort to get her to be more organised with her studies (which will benefit other aspects of her life as well). It means a great commitment on your part, but you probably only have another 2 yrs or so at most before the window for helping her develop good habits closes. After that, you will have to let her figure it out herself, with no guarantee that it will happen before it affects her future negatively.

As for textbook and notes - you should impress on your daughter that these should be read after every lesson, and every doubt cleared up asap. Revision is precisely that - to revise stuff that she already knows; she shouldn't be looking at them for the first time! Teachers' notes especially are important - no teacher wastes time producing notes if she expects students to ignore them.

[MrsKiasu]

slmkhoo:

MrsKiasu:

Mine also never follow plans so total waste of time to plan. Teachers say must read text books and notes given by school and dd never do that..good that we know it after ptc..too late already for a lot of things :sad: hopefully both of us learned something and able to sustain it

I must be blunt here - if your daughter was doing very well without planning, then perhaps you can forget making plans. For me, the habit of planning and getting work done on schedule is important enough that I insisted on both my girls learning to plan, even the one who sailed through academically. But since your daughter isn't doing that well, and she's still young enough for you to influence her, I think you should still make an effort to get her to be more organised with her studies (which will benefit other aspects of her life as well). It means a great commitment on your part, but you probably only have another 2 yrs or so at most before the window for helping her develop good habits closes. After that, you will have to let her figure it out herself, with no guarantee that it will happen before it affects her future negatively.

As for textbook and notes - you should impress on your daughter that these should be read after every lesson, and every doubt cleared up asap. Revision is precisely that - to revise stuff that she already knows; she shouldn't be looking at them for the first time! Teachers' notes especially are important - no teacher wastes time producing notes if she expects students to ignore them.

Thanks slmkhoo..appreciate that. Very soon dd will be in P5 and still so much lagging behind.

Can I check how many hours per day do you mummies expect the kids to study per day? Or how many pages of activities per day? For both scenarios of child still needing to catch up and to maintain the result? During school holiday and also non school holiday?

[sky minecrafter]

slmkhoo:

I must be blunt here - if your daughter was doing very well without planning, then perhaps you can forget making plans... But since your daughter isn't doing that well, and she's still young enough for you to influence her, I think you should still make an effort to get her to be more organised with her studies (which will benefit other aspects of her life as well)...As for textbook and notes - you should impress on your daughter that these should be read after every lesson, and every doubt cleared up asap. Revision is precisely that - to revise stuff that she already knows; she shouldn't be looking at them for the first time! Teachers' notes especially are important - no teacher wastes time producing notes if she expects students to ignore them.

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:goodpost: slmkhoo


MrsKS
I mentioned in your thread previously Revision = Input
If home the whole day for that day, then I think 6 hours of studying (spread out) is quite reasonable.

[Fried chicken]

MrsKiasu:

slmkhoo:

[quote=\"MrsKiasu\"]Mine also never follow plans so total waste of time to plan. Teachers say must read text books and notes given by school and dd never do that..good that we know it after ptc..too late already for a lot of things :sad: hopefully both of us learned something and able to sustain it

I must be blunt here - if your daughter was doing very well without planning, then perhaps you can forget making plans. For me, the habit of planning and getting work done on schedule is important enough that I insisted on both my girls learning to plan, even the one who sailed through academically. But since your daughter isn't doing that well, and she's still young enough for you to influence her, I think you should still make an effort to get her to be more organised with her studies (which will benefit other aspects of her life as well). It means a great commitment on your part, but you probably only have another 2 yrs or so at most before the window for helping her develop good habits closes. After that, you will have to let her figure it out herself, with no guarantee that it will happen before it affects her future negatively.

As for textbook and notes - you should impress on your daughter that these should be read after every lesson, and every doubt cleared up asap. Revision is precisely that - to revise stuff that she already knows; she shouldn't be looking at them for the first time! Teachers' notes especially are important - no teacher wastes time producing notes if she expects students to ignore them.

Thanks slmkhoo..appreciate that. Very soon dd will be in P5 and still so much lagging behind.

Can I check how many hours per day do you mummies expect the kids to study per day? Or how many pages of activities per day? For both scenarios of child still needing to catch up and to maintain the result? During school holiday and also non school holiday?[/quote]I would say during the holidays, it'll be a good idea to get in some good, solid revision time every day. Maybe 2 hours every morning and another 1.5 hours in the evening? But it has to be every day. No excuses. No work, no play. And you have to enforce that. Never mind if they complain or cry or whine. They'll get over it. You really just have to be the enforcer. That's the reality.

[janet88]

MrsKiasu:

locked in Eng tuition for all mornings meaning external tuition every day.?.must be expensive :moneyflies:

apologies. my mistake.
i've locked in monday tuition for the month of june...ie 5 monday mornings.

[MrsKiasu]

janet88:

MrsKiasu:

locked in Eng tuition for all mornings meaning external tuition every day.?.must be expensive :moneyflies:

apologies. my mistake.
i've locked in monday tuition for the month of june...ie 5 monday mornings.

no need apologize