What is your child's homework personality?

Quiz Questions

• 1.
  When you check in on your child (who is quietly doing homework in their room)… do you regularly discover he or she hasn’t actually begun?

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  • A.
    Yes
  • B.
    No
• 2.
  Has your child ever put off a major project until the night before it’s due—only to plunge your entire family into a frenzy as you try to knock it out together into the wee hours of the morning?

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  • A.
    Yes
  • B.
    No
• 3.
  Do your attempts to help your child with homework always seem to push their buttons and turn into heated arguments?

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  • A.
    Yes
  • B.
    No
• 4.
  Is your child disorganized and forgetful when it comes to homework? For example, do they forget to turn in assignments or regularly lose papers in their backpack?

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  • A.
    Yes
  • B.
    No

Quiz Outcomes

• 1.
  Your child's homework personality is... Tick Tock Tommy

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  You may have a Tick Tock Tommy. This is a child who simply has a quieter internal clock. He can take a break to check his phone or wander into the kitchen for a snack, and before he knows it, a full hour has passed! Two Quick Tips for Kids with Quiet Internal Clocks👇1) Download an App to Help with FocusInstead of policing little Tommy every minute, try downloading an app designed to help him focus. For example, SelfControl (an app for Macs) and StayFocused (a Google Chrome plugin) allow you to block distracting websites for just a set period of time.2) If the Phone is Distracting, Try This...If the phone’s a distraction, download the Forest app. Your child will be able to set a timer for the exact amount of time he needs to focus. If he leaves his phone alone for the entire countdown, a virtual tree will grow, but if he stops the timer early, the tree will die. Kids love using this app over time to grow an entire forest of trees! Extra Resources for Tick Tock Tommy1) Check out this blog post where I explain some of the real reasons why students procrastinate.2) Watch this webinar for tips to improve your child's executive function skills (without all the arguments!) this school year.3) Book a free consultation with our education experts. Let us help get your student organized and on track!
• 2.
  Your child's homework personality is... Last Minute Lucy

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  You may have a Last Minute Lucy. And you need to hear this: It’s very unlikely that your child is putting off work because she’s lazy. Instead, she’s probably overwhelmed. Unsure of how to break long-term assignments into manageable steps, she simply puts things off and puts things off until everything comes to a head at the last possible minute.Time Management Hacks to Help Last Minute Lucy👇Write Down a Weekly PlanLittle time management hacks can make a big difference for your Last Minute Lucy. For example, work with your child to plan ahead on a whiteboard divided into the days of the week. When a big assignment is due, help her break the tasks down into individual steps, estimate how long they will take, and schedule them out on her weekly whiteboard “planner” (or, for high schoolers with even bigger projects, a paper planner or calendar app).Extra Resources to Help Kids Who Put Off Schoolwork1) Check out this blog post where I explain some of the real reasons why students procrastinate.2) Watch this webinar for tips to improve your child's executive function skills (without all the arguments!) this school year.3) Book a free consultation with our education experts. Let us help get your student organized and on track!
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  Your child's homework personality is... Hot Headed Harry

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  Homework time starts easily enough. But as soon as you try to ask your child how he’s doing or offer to help, your well-intentioned efforts quickly escalate into huge arguments. Tempers rise. He yells. You yell. All peace is lost in the house, and guilt and frustration quickly set in.Sound familiar? If your attempts to help always seem to push your child’s buttons, you might have a Hot Headed Harry. But that doesn’t mean you have to check out and leave your child to figure things out on his own!Have Weekly Check-Ins👇 Tell your child you’re going to have a check-in every single week to simply talk. This shouldn’t be during homework time, when there’s pressure to complete an assignment or figure out a solution that very second. Instead, maybe it’s a walk around the neighborhood on Sunday evenings or while going out for pizza on Fridays. Use this time to ask your child how things are going—and how they feel about how things are going. Kids may resist your questions at first, but as they get used to the routine, they can come to see this as a low-pressure opportunity to talk things through with you. And you can use this as an opportunity to gauge what kind of help your child might need to succeed in the classroom and beyond.Extra Resources to Help Hot-Headed Harry and friends...1) Check out this blog post where I explain some of the real reasons why students procrastinate.2) Watch this webinar for tips to improve your child's executive function skills (without all the arguments!) this school year.3) Book a free consultation with our education experts. Let us help get your student organized and on track!
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  Your child's homework personality is... Backpack Bonnie

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  Your child’s teacher reaches out to ask why she hasn’t turned in her assignment. Perplexed, you ask your daughter if she has the rubric. She digs to the bottom of her backpack… un-crumples and re-crumples papers… and finally unearths the important piece of paper that’s been wedged beneath her books for weeks.It sounds like you have a Backpack Bonnie. The mess is getting out of control, and if nothing changes, her grades will soon suffer. Schedule Weekly Clean Sweeps👇One simple way to set him or her on the right path is to implement weekly, family-wide clean sweeps. At a set time each and every week, everyone in your family will drop what they’re doing and take 15 minutes to do a “clean sweep” of the papers that have accumulated in the past week.While Bonnie tackles her backpack, you can tackle your kitchen counter or home office to demonstrate that you’re all in this together. All papers can be organized into three piles: 1. Keep (for papers that you need on hand for now) 2. Archive (for papers to file away that same day) 3. Toss (for papers that can be thrown away)Make this simple, weekly practice part of your routine to keep the whole family organized and on track for a successful week. Extra Resources to Help Students Like Backpack Bonnie...1) Check out this blog post where I explain how parents can help their child stay on top of assignments without feeling like the homework police.2) Watch this webinar for tips to improve your child's executive function skills (without all the arguments!) this school year.3) Book a free consultation with our education experts. Let us help get your student organized and on track!