Various ways parents do so their children can do homework and want to learn independently. The usual way is to include tutoring children or bring a private teacher home.
But that method is sometimes not necessarily successful. Usually the child will learn when attending tutoring or with the private teacher alone. After that, children use time only to play.
The Family Friends Forum of the Ministry of Education and Culture provides some tips for dealing with lazy children learning:
1. Parents become role models
The most important thing is that parents must be able to become role models in the child's learning process. Parents should get used to doing any learning activities in the presence of children. For example by doing reading activities or completing household chores in the presence of children. When you are used to seeing your parents learn, children will do it too.
2. Special learning space
Parents can provide a room or special place for children's learning in which there is a comfortable desk, colorful space, complete writing equipment, bookshelves, and something that children like. Provision of space or special place does not need to be expensive but convenient for the child's learning process. Therefore, the spirit of learning will grow.
3. Meet children's needs
Meeting children's needs is very important so that children are not focused on their desires continuously and can be motivated to learn.
For example, when a child asks for money to pay for school tuition fees, parents can meet these needs in a good way, such as "Sister help daddy pray with God so that he can be given money and can pay for brother's school tomorrow."
Indirectly aside from learning needs, in terms of the spiritual aspect the child has been taught to communicate with God and know the meaning that everything needed can be obtained by asking God.
4. Asking daily questions
The daily questions referred to here replace not instructions for learning. Questions that can be asked include; Have you studied yet today? Has PR been done yet?
Questions like this need to be applied to stimulate children's awareness of learning and practicing honestly. Because if parents ask to learn directly, the child will be lazy.
These questions can be used as an effective way to make children learn by themselves.
5. Giving an understanding of the meaning of learning
Explain to the child that the essence of learning is to increase the potential in later life. While the true meaning of learning as a means of facilitating him in achieving something desired.
Parents can also tell the success of a person or character who is obtained because of perseverance in learning. Also tell about people failing because they don't want to learn. From here the child becomes aware of what to do in his life, especially to realize his future.
