If your conversations are brief or overly simple, your children may have problems paying attention to teachers for more than a few minutes. It is also important that parents spend time listening to children. This will help children learn how to express their thougts and feelings. This is not only important in school but also in building and maintaining human relationships. Families have different styles of accomplishing things but there are four characteristics of productivity that relate closely to achievement in school.
Children benefit when they have some of their own tasks to perform by a certain time.
They learn to do things on their own without close adult supervision and to be responsible. Far too often parents get tired of reminding a child to perform a task and then do it for them. Doing regular tasks helps children greatly with homework and other independent projects. School requires that children work together on many projects and teams and that they do their share. Cooperation is best taught in the home.