The naughty kid can't concentrate on his homework and looks around. What's the best way?

Many children are inattentive, distracted, and in a daze when doing homework. According to my personal experience, there are several methods:

1. Create an environment for children Quiet and comfortable learning environment

In the past, when my children did their homework, they did not have a fixed place to do their homework. They could write wherever they wanted. Later, I found that it was difficult for him to concentrate. Sometimes when he was doing homework in the living room, he would easily get distracted and be attracted by the sounds of people talking. Later, I bought him a small desk and asked him to fix it here. He wrote his homework on the desk and gave him a few requirements:

In this way, he was obviously much more focused on his homework than before, and he no longer looked around or walked around looking for various things. situation.

2. Make a homework plan

Prepare a "homework plan book" for your child. Let the child record the various assignments for each subject and let him arrange the order in which the assignments are completed. You can first choose the homework that you are more interested in or that is easy to do, and complete it from easy to difficult. Put a √ on each item you complete.

When a child sees that part of a relatively easy homework has been completed, the child will gradually get better, which not only reduces the psychological burden, but also enhances self-confidence. At this time, if you focus on overcoming difficulties, you will be able to Much easier.

3. Control the progress

If the child does have a lot of homework, you can guide him to complete it in sections. For example, after he has done his homework for 20 minutes, you can let him rest for a while, or change his homework to avoid doing the same homework for a long time, which will cause the child to develop "aesthetic fatigue."

Before doing homework, Let the child estimate how long it will take to complete the homework. If it is half an hour, then after the time is up, if the child does not complete it, then let the child analyze why he did not complete it. Is it because he did not estimate the difficulty well? Or did you lose your mind in the middle and be in a daze for a while?

After many analyzes, children will gradually understand the reason why they write homework slowly, and they will also be able to learn more about cherishing time and developing good study habits.

4. Parental Accompaniment

When children are doing homework, parents should not watch TV or check their mobile phones. If possible, parents should try to accompany their children to do homework. However, accompanying your children to do homework does not mean supervising them. Parents should not keep urging or gesticulating when their children are doing homework, as this will arouse their children's resentment. The best way is to read quietly on one side. You must know that the way parents read seriously is also part of the child's homework environment, which will have a subtle impact on the child.

This problem is easy to solve. The reason can be described in one sentence (applicable to most people): the child does not know himself, there is too much content, the time exceeds the limit, and there is a lack of clear goals.

Below is a detailed explanation of the meaning of each mantra and its solution:

1. Children do not know themselves

Children are ignorant, especially for They have a process of exploration when it comes to the rules of new things. Homework is a new thing for some children. If you don't make an agreement with him in advance and clearly tell him the rules for doing this, how can he follow it? When the homework begins, the parents continue to remind the children of the rules based on the child's situation, which makes the children feel that the parents are making things difficult for them.

Solution: Clearly agree on the rules for homework in advance.

What is clarity: What does concentration and focus look like? Are you sure your child really understands? So please give him clear requirements: do it well, hold a pen in your hand, read the book with your eyes, and think with your brain.

2. Too much content

Again, children have a process of adapting to new things and a process of exploration.

But parents often have very high requirements: the waist should be straight, the head should be raised, the eyes should be kept at a distance from the notebook, the pen and paper should be kept at a distance, left first then right, top to bottom, first the middle and then both sides, and the writing should be neat and tidy ...

It’s not that these requirements are wrong, but it’s just that if a child is asked to memorize so many things at once, how can he care? Do you still have the mental energy to think about the problem at hand? After writing a few strokes, I was told to keep my back straight and my head raised...

Solution: One step at a time, muscle memory cannot be achieved in one go.

3. Time exceeds the limit

Concentration is not infinite. Children’s concentration is much shorter than that of adults. Even a 45-minute class rarely The child stayed focused and did not lose focus. Same goes for homework.

When a child's attention reaches its limit, parents still don't know it and just ask the child to finish the homework quickly and seriously. It's not surprising that he can't do it.

Solution: Take timely rest and proceed in sections. For example, after finishing your Chinese homework, you can take a breather, drink some water and go to the toilet to adjust yourself.

4. Lack of clear goals

Children all want to have their own time, and most children want to play more than study. But they also understand that learning is necessary.

The reason why they show negative and resistant emotions towards learning is that they don’t know when they will be old enough to play. Anxiety comes from the unknown.

Solution: Agree on a time period, or how much time, the children can freely use.

Based on my personal experience of tutoring three hundred children in their after-school homework, unless there are special circumstances, the above content can be regarded as a general formula. Hope it can provide reference value.

Obviously, children have no sense of urgency, do not have a sense of time, are not focused on doing things, and do not have a strong sense of rules and order. It is recommended to correct it early, because this will not only be reflected in the child's homework, but also in the classroom performance at school, and even in everything he does, eventually forming a free and undisciplined personality.

There are three suggestions:

1. Agree on a time for task completion, make rewards and punishments clear, and gradually form a time concept. If the communication with your child is smoother, you can make an appointment with your child on a time to complete the task. As long as you do one thing well within the specified time, you don't have to do something your child hates, and you can do something he cares about. In this way, children can feel the benefits of completing a task at an agreed time, and it should also guide children to feel the sense of accomplishment and relaxation and joy brought by completing homework within the specified time - completing homework early can eliminate the need to think about homework at all. , playing freely. At the beginning, the prescribed time can be set relatively short to allow the children to taste the benefits, and then gradually extended to gradually form a habit.

2. Divert attention from the things the child is focused on. Although the child is not focused enough on homework, there must be something he likes and focuses on, such as building blocks, etc. Tell the child that this feeling of wholehearted devotion is concentration, and he must be focused like this on anything he does. , anything you don’t want to finish can be solved quickly.

3. Strict and rigid regulations, resolutely prohibit any sloppy or bluffing in doing things, and establish rules and a sense of order. Strictness does not mean tearing up and rewriting the children's bad writing, but establishing rules such as preparing the clothes for the next day before going to bed at night, and taking the rice bowl to the kitchen after eating, so that Children develop a sense of order and rules. Let your children understand that some things need to be completed at a specific time and according to rules, without any ambiguity.

Children cannot concentrate on homework. This is not just the case for one child, but for many children. At this stage, it will be difficult for them to control themselves. This is because their mental ability is insufficient; secondly, it is also because their self-control and self-discipline abilities are relatively weak; thirdly, it is also because children are easily tempted by the outside world, and they can easily change their attention immediately at the slightest temptation. , compared with adults, the difference is relatively large.

Faced with children who are not focused on doing homework and looking around, we can solve this problem from the following aspects:

First, we must establish rules and control the children's basic behavioral norms. It is a common phenomenon for children to be confused and anxious. If you set up good rules, the child will be able to control his own mind and follow some rules to do his basic things. In this way, he will slowly learn to focus, learn to control himself, and learn to be self-disciplined.

Second, make clear the requirements when your children are doing homework. In fact, under different circumstances, the method requirements will be very different, and they need to be adjusted according to some actual situations. When doing homework, there are requirements for doing homework, when eating, there are requirements for eating, when walking, there are requirements for walking, when sitting on a stool, there are requirements for sitting on a stool... so the requirements are based on different situations. When making adjustments and changes, we must make clear the requirements for writing homework.

Third, we need to borrow some tools to assist children in their homework. For example, a stopwatch is a very effective tool for training children to focus. We use it to record the time used by children to write homework. We need to record the time it takes to solve a problem. Then based on the length of time, a performance of the child's concentration is judged. With data as a reference, we can help children adjust their attention, put forward clear requirements for children, and allow children to complete homework accurately and quickly within the specified time.

When children do not concentrate on their homework and look around, as parents, we may think that the child is unwilling to concentrate or that there is something wrong with the child himself. This is actually a misunderstanding. Concentration is a kind of ability. Since it is an ability, it needs to be cultivated. It’s not that the child doesn’t want to focus, but that the ability to focus is not well developed.

Children miss words or make typos when copying homework; they forget to bring their homework to school, and cannot take home the things they take out; they often get distracted when studying, but are particularly focused on playing with mobile phones; the words of teachers should be regarded as edicts, and the words of parents should be regarded as edicts. Out of earshot...

These are all attention issues.

Because my child was evaluated before and was assessed as having insufficient concentration, so I have recently been reading some books and courses on attention and concentration. I would like to share my learning experience, hoping to give some advice to all parents. Be inspired.

When we ask our children to concentrate on homework, do we know exactly what we are asking of our children?

Three aspects of attention:

1. Alertness

When you are walking on the road and hear the harsh sound of horns behind you, you will immediately avoid it. This is alertness. Alertness requires us to be able to detect sudden changes when we are focused.

Children are running around in the community, not paying attention to the stones on the ground, or the uneven ground, and fall down. This is caused by lack of alertness.

Playing with mobile phones on the street and bumping into telephone poles are probably some of the jokes that many people have made, but they are not vigilant enough.

2. Shift of attention

In class, the teacher has already talked about the next page, but the child still stays on the previous page. This means that the child's ability to shift attention is not very good. .

3. Conflict resolution

Conflict resolution is what we should focus on and what we should not focus on when there are many things or information in the current environment. Simply understood, conflict resolution is the ability to resist interference.

We often complain about "children's inattention". In fact, we are complaining that children cannot eliminate interference from other environments around them.

What we usually talk about as "concentration" and "concentration" are actually the resolution of conflicts of attention.

It can be seen that attention is not equal to concentration. Attention includes not only concentration, but also alertness and attention shifting abilities.

How attention is destroyed

1. Always being interrupted

When I was a child, I always fed my children water when they were playing with toys. , or ask the child "What are you playing with?"

2. Taught by parents

Play with toys while eating, or watch mobile phones or TV while eating, so that babies learn to distract themselves.

3. Too many toys

All kinds of toys are thrown on the floor. Sometimes you play with this, sometimes with that, and you play with each toy a few times. There is no habit of playing with one toy before moving on to the next.

How to improve attention and solve the problem of not concentrating on homework

1. Change the external environment to help children reduce unnecessary interference

Clean up children’s writing In the homework environment, take away disturbing things around, such as toys and food, and make the child’s desk as clean and tidy as possible.

At the same time, parents should not speak loudly. Of course, it is not recommended for parents to play with mobile phones or watch TV. It is best to read a book.

Of course, if you need to use the computer to work, then tell your child honestly, "You do homework, and I use the computer to work." Let the child know that you use the computer to work, not to play games or watch movies. TV drama.

2. Help children with task planning

It is difficult for children to focus on things that they are not interested in. Therefore, parents should help their children break down the task of writing homework and let the children complete it in several times. For example, after completing a subject's homework, take a break for a few minutes, get up and drink a glass of water, or stand on the balcony, stretch your waist, and take a deep breath.

3. Children have time to focus.

This is a table I made by referring to a foreign literature. The younger the child, the shorter the attention span.

Attention games

In daily life, play more small games with your children to train their attention.

1. Schulte Square

Schulte Square is a classic attention-based training game. A square piece of paper with 25 squares. The order of numbers 1-25 in the grid is out of order. Children need to point out their positions in order.

2. Play puzzles

According to the age of the child, buy the number of puzzles suitable for the child.

4. Taking turns games

Take turns to recite poems, take turns to play cards, and take turns to find things in the supermarket.

Children’s attention problems do not develop overnight. Of course, the problem cannot be solved overnight. If you want your children to have good concentration on their studies, the first thing is to protect them, and the second thing is to cultivate them.

Hello! I am Nan Xiaomi, a mother of two children, and a provincial teaching expert. Let me answer your questions and hope to help you and your children.

Topic: A naughty child can’t concentrate on his homework and looks around. What’s the best way?

My child was in the third grade of elementary school and had a similar phenomenon. The main reasons are:

Writing homework is originally the child's task. Can it be completed in a timely, efficient and high-quality way? Homework requires children to be responsible for themselves.

However, many parents interfere too much when accompanying their children to do homework. For example, they can’t wait to correct mistakes as soon as they find them, use an eraser to erase the answers for their children, and tell them how to do it. Write; keep urging your children, it’s getting late, hurry up and write your homework.

If you do this, the child will slowly lose the initiative to learn, and will patiently "transfer" the responsibility of writing and checking homework to his parents.

The child will feel that if he made a mistake anyway, his parents will point it out for him and tell him the answer.

At the same time, children's sense of time has not yet been truly established. Parents often prompt them to write faster, and they do not write if they are not urged. Anyway, this is the case every day, and they can almost finish writing when they are sleepy.

Therefore, when writing homework, students often make too many "careless" mistakes and wait for their parents to remind them and tell them the answers.

Children are generally playful. Any small object will arouse curiosity and they can play with relish.

When doing homework, look around, there must be something that attracts the child's attention.

We can recall and list: extracurricular readings, posters, stickers, toys, snacks, mobile phones, TVs, outside sounds, family status, etc., will all affect children.

After a day of intense study at school, children will switch to homework as soon as they get home, and may be forced to accept urging or unintentional reprimands from their parents.

Therefore, negative emotions will gradually accumulate in their hearts, and they will also seek to relieve themselves.

Often, inattentive actions such as looking around are used to switch the brain away from boring learning, or to protest against parents' "urging" or scolding.

So, in response to the above analysis, we can take the following measures to solve it:

First of all, parents should clarify their role positioning, sit far aside and accompany reading, and do not read too much Intervene in children's homework.

Secondly, children must be clearly told how to do it, arrange their own time, complete their homework and check their homework; parents only check the homework at the end, and will not provide guidance or answer questions in the middle; check the errors , you also need to correct it yourself first; if the question is really difficult, we will provide guidance.

Finally, just like an exam, the children are required to keep track of time, complete the tasks regularly and quantitatively, and finally be graded. Every child cares deeply about his or her scores, and their enthusiasm can often be mobilized.

Summary: Only when we clarify the children's responsibilities and the parents' positioning in the homework writing process can the children think about what to do and how to complete the homework in a timely and accurate manner.

Parents should ensure that the home is clean and tidy, the windows are clear and clean, and fruits and flowers are placed to give the children a fragrant and comfortable home feeling.

Help children tidy up their rooms, put more books, hang world maps, store toys and other small objects, and create a bookish and pleasant environment so that children can easily and concentrate on their homework.

At the same time, when children are doing homework, parents should not check their mobile phones, watch TV or walk back and forth; they should sit far away, read or work, create a positive atmosphere and let the children feel You are not working hard alone.

Don’t urge your children to do homework as soon as they get home, and don’t nag them constantly; first let your children drink a glass of water, eat a piece of fruit, or play for ten minutes; talk to your children and tell each other what happened today. things and have the most basic emotional communication, these are very important.

After appropriately relaxing, let the children quickly and simply write a plan according to the workload, and arrange it according to the school time of 45 minutes and 10 minutes. During the homework writing process, take appropriate activities and relax reasonably.

The plan written by the child will be internalized as the driving force to complete; at the same time, appropriate entertainment will also become the motivation for the child to complete the homework efficiently.

I hope my answer can help you!

There are several reasons why children cannot concentrate on their homework:

1. Sensory integration is imbalanced and they cannot control their concentration for a long time

Give your children some sensory integration Disorder training, such as touch training, or buying some toys with sensory disorders for training; in addition, adding sports activities for children, such as skipping rope, shooting balls, kicking balls, etc. As long as it is exercise, it will improve the child.

2. Parents will remind their children when they mess around. As a result, children's inner strength becomes weaker and weaker, and they become more and more dependent on parents' reminders.

When children do homework, make a homework time schedule:

Prioritize writing mathematics. (Mathematics requires concentration)

Second, write English. (English is mostly about listening, reading, and writing, and children are more interested in it, so their attention requirements are not so high)

Third, write Chinese. (Procrastination in Chinese language is most likely due to difficulty). It is recommended that if there is difficulty, face it with your child, explore it, and then let go little by little.

You can also use a timer.

After fixing the time for completing homework, start the timer. If the child is playing with rubber or looking at the sky, parents please do not remind them. Parents don't see how much their children have completed until the timer ends. If it is completed on time, parents should verbally encourage it in time.

Parents should constantly encourage their children, do not always say negative words, do not always criticize their children, and give them confidence. I believe the child will gradually get better.

"Why go to school?" "Why go to class?" "Why do you have to do homework?" These seemingly simple questions are really bothering many children - if in a child's world , going to school is to have fun with classmates, going to class is punishment from your family, and doing homework is just the "darkness before dawn" that you can play in. How many people can be interested and focused on these "dark sides of life"?

If a child cannot concentrate on homework and procrastinates, we first need to ask ourselves, do we understand the learning difficulties? How did he cope with these difficulties? How can we help children?

How do children procrastinate in doing homework and look around without concentration? We will make the following analysis

1. The homework is relatively difficult and the children cannot solve many questions. Due to the avoidance of pain, So use this method to alleviate

2. Not strong willpower, want to do well, and know how to do well, but cannot control your behavior

3. Environmental There are too many influences, causing children to be unable to concentrate

4. Avoidance mentality. If you linger on doing homework, you can do less, or even skip some homework in the end

5. No motivation Strength, improving academic performance and good grades have no practical appeal to children

For the reasons mentioned above, we will talk about the solutions respectively

2. Self-control: In fact, Human self-control is limited, and it is normal for children not to be able to control their own behavior. At this time, we can use heterodiscipline to help children develop habits. When children develop habits, natural self-discipline will be formed. Requirements It is quite difficult for children to control themselves, and the main thing is to cultivate their habits.

3. Environment: The impact of the environment on people is really huge. If a person who wants to lose weight is surrounded by delicious food, his mobile phone is full of takeaway calls, and there is a group of friends who love food, losing weight will be easy. It's been tough. Therefore, we need children to be very focused when doing homework. We should help children organize a quiet environment, a separate room, without noise disturbance. Of course, it would be better if parents can read and study together

4 , Escape psychology: Don't let your child's dilly-dallying achieve the goal he wants. When the child finds that his dilly-dallying cannot solve the problem, the motivation for dilly-dallying will be reduced. Although children's dawdling can still satisfy their psychological escape needs due to psychological factors, it can be combined with other methods to increase the child's driving force. Allowing children to experience the happy feeling after completing homework seriously can effectively prevent children from dawdling

5. Driving force: This aspect is very important. Driving force is divided into two categories. One is internal driving force, such as Happiness, satisfaction, achievement, value, etc. The other type is external driving force, such as material rewards and spiritual rewards. Although we all need children to have internal driving force for learning, we can also use external driving force. We try our best to select some family activities for the rewards, which will reduce everyone's worries.

Behind every child’s behavior, there are objective motivations and reasons for the behavior. When we only see the surface behavior, it is easy to cause various negative emotional reactions due to the behavior, and under the influence of bad emotions, Irrational behaviors are often of little help to children. On the contrary, it is more helpful for children to understand the motivations and reasons behind their children's behavior and then adjust our countermeasures based on these motivations and reasons.

Children’s attention problem has become a common headache for many parents. As long as they ask their children to do homework, the children will be in a daze. When they are asked to play games, there is no such phenomenon. This is because the children are bored with the homework. Children who feel bored but are interested in playing lack the awareness of learning and have not developed good study habits. In daily life, parents do not pay attention to cultivating their children's attention and concentration, which is very detrimental to their children's learning. So, let me talk about how parents should cultivate their children's attention, and how should they deal with it when their children are distracted while doing homework?

This is not only related to the child's learning attitude. If the child develops the habit of being half-hearted, he will be easily distracted no matter what he does and will not do well. Therefore, in daily life, parents should focus on cultivating their children's concentration and ask their children to only concentrate on one thing when doing things. For example, when eating, just eat. You cannot watch TV, play on your mobile phone, or listen to music.

Another reason that distracts children from homework is that external disturbances prevent children from concentrating. Parents should be careful not to place too many ornaments around their children’s desks. Try to ensure that the surrounding environment is simple and monotonous when the child is doing homework. The child's eyesight has nowhere to go, which reduces the possibility of being in a daze and the greater the probability that the child will focus on the homework.

Many children are forced to They are reluctant to do homework, so they are unable to devote themselves to studying. They often get distracted when they see the topic, and they are still thinking about the TV or games before doing homework. This is a common phenomenon. What parents need to do is to negotiate with their children, write seriously when doing homework, and play seriously when playing. Only when children do homework actively and voluntarily can they focus on homework.

Parents can set time nodes to stipulate when children should do homework and watch TV and play games. This will give children something to look forward to and improve their concentration when doing homework. When homework is completed within the prescribed time or when children are still watching TV and playing, parents should punish them, and children should also be rewarded if they finish on time. Parents can even encourage their children to complete their homework first so that they can have more time to play, so that their children will be more motivated.

Children are easily distracted, and another factor is the influence of parents. If the children are doing homework while the parents are playing with their mobile phones and laughing sometimes, the children will definitely be attracted. After all, children in junior high schools are greedy. Play, willpower is weak. Therefore, parents should create a quiet homework environment for their children. In this environment, parents should lead by example, read a book or do some quiet things, and do not attract too much attention from their children.

As for the problem of children being unable to concentrate when doing homework, my experience is that parents can help their children change this situation by doing these three things.

First, when children do homework, parents also read and study.

According to my experience, if an adult is still watching TV while a child is doing homework, or if an adult is giving food to the child and calling the child to get something, it will affect the child's concentration.

It is best to maintain a relaxed and clean environment at home when children are doing homework, play light music, and parents are also reading and studying. To create such a learning atmosphere, children will also do their homework seriously.

Reducing children’s psychological stress. In an episode of "Super Parenting Teacher", after Xuan Xuan finished his homework, his mother saw that she had made several mistakes on the questions, and immediately began to criticize Xuan Xuan: "Why did you write such a simple question wrong? If you don't think it's right, don't do it." Talk about food." Xuanxuan's emotions began to break down, crying and yelling. Children's emotional problems come from the pressure from their parents. If you don't pay attention when doing homework, don't criticize your children immediately. Think from the child's point of view, you would like to have someone who will immediately start criticizing you if you make a mistake. Or even scold?

If you want your children to be able to concentrate, you can communicate when both parties are in a good mood.

The benefits of concentrating on homework can improve learning efficiency. You can have more time to do things your children like. You can go out and play for a while, so that your children can concentrate and complete their homework. Let the child understand the consequences of his actions and let the child know that his parents love him. These reminders are helping him. Only then will the child be willing to take the initiative to change this habit.

Second, reduce the time children watch TV and do more outdoor sports.

Some children start watching TV and mobile phones as soon as they return home. The pictures they watch will affect their concentration. Even if a person is already sitting at the table, all he is thinking about is the programs he has watched, and he has no intention of doing homework at all, so he cannot concentrate on his homework.

You can increase the time for outdoor exercise, which can not only exercise your body, but also consume your children's energy. When you get home tired from playing, you will not want to watch TV, and it can also improve the quality of sleep. The book "Exercise Changes the Brain" points out that children who can exercise moderately every day have much higher learning abilities than children who do not exercise.

Without other friends, you can take your child with a rope and kick the keys, which not only increases the time for parent-child interaction, but also allows the child to watch less TV and be more attentive when studying.

Third, take your children to read books together during breaks.

On weekends, taking your children to the library and reading books together can help them improve their concentration. Some children simply cannot sit still when reading. On the one hand, parents need to set a good example, and on the other hand, they need to give their children appropriate encouragement. For example: The child was able to do homework seriously for fifteen minutes today, which is better than yesterday. Parents can say: Mom is very happy to see that you have made progress today! Only by constantly discovering the shining points of the child and believing that the child will get better and better can the child truly become an outstanding person!

In short, if you want to help children concentrate on their homework, they must create a good learning atmosphere, watch less TV, do more exercise, and set a good example so that children can see that their parents can study seriously. The appearance encourages children to continue to grow.