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Don't Cry or Scream, GLEAN

November 7, 2013 by Chantrice C. Ollie |

Parents/Guardians, homework time is not the time for Simon Says:

If your child begins to cry and/or scream before, but PARTICULARLY during homework time do not follow suit and begin to cry and scream behind and with them.
If your child begins to stomp, throw things, pout before, but ESPECIALLY during homework time, do not feel like or proceed to one-up them. Parent/Guardian say, "I will not allow my child to be Simon in this manner".

Their behavior is a cry, scream, pout, stomp, toss for HELP...Help because they either may not want to admit they they are stuck and confused. They feel embarassed because they know you think highly of them. They feel stomped, so they may stomp. They feel compressed, so they may scream. They feel like they're being gutted for info they don't know, so they my swing. They may feel thrown because it's not their strongest subject or topic, so they may toss. They may not know what to say, so they just cry. This is NOT a sign of REBELLION; It's is a plea for HELP & UNDERSTANDING.

This is the time to sympathize with you child. Tell them what your weakest subject in school was. Tell them a serious or funny story about your fear of doing work for that course (we all have one I'm sure...I know I do). And then tell them how you overcame the bad feeling about learning the subject and/or just simply finishing that one assignment for the course (That means pick a HAPPY-ENDING example. If you don't have one a HAPPY-ENDING example either say what you should have done or share someone else's - they probably won't mind)

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