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Is your teenager bringing home unsatisfactory report cards at the end of school terms or quarters? Or are you feeling that he/she is not working at his/her true potential? If this is the case and you know your teenager isn’t just being strongly influenced by a peer group by going out on school days and coming back way past curfew, then you can assume that your teenager is having individual learning difficulties.
Considering a tutor
Of course a peer group can have its fair share of bad influence on your child, if they are constantly diverting his/her attention from academics to partying or hanging out. But if your child does come straight home after school and is still bringing back less than average grades than you may be concerned about what exactly his/her issue is. Perhaps the learning matter is genuinely difficult for your child, which in that case you may consider having him/her tutored. Try and check for tutoring programs at his/her very own school, or you may consider a private tutor.
Focus and Concentration
But even if your teen may obediently go straight to his/her room after dinner to finish up school work, as a parent, you can’t be so sure that all is well. Focus and concentration are two important factors to consider. Even without being bothered in particular by outside influences from peers, your teenager must deal with distractions of his/her own. Your teenager may be easily distracted by a variety of things that may pre-occupy his/her mind. If you can remember, adolescence is a period when teenagers can be all a flurry about developing crushes and first dates.
Distractions like these can all affect your child’s focus and concentration. Worrying about how others perceive them can be enough to keep a teen’s mind off his/her homework, sometimes taking up even more time than going out with his/her pals. How can you help your child keep his/her focus on learning and have the good concentration needed to study well?
Your teen’s ambitions
One simple way to consider is by asking your teen about his/her ambitions in life. Get him/her to focus on his/her own goals and aspirations instead of the approval of others, particularly that of his/her peers. By mentioning a topic like this, you may get your teen to think back on the track of his/her true motivation. You can awaken his/her determination by recognizing your child’s goal and pointing out that the first step to it is studying well. You may mention that though his/her dream ambition may seem far off, by focusing on his/her studies he/she is already actually working towards it.
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