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My Child Rushes Through Homework
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My Child Rushes Through Homework in 5 Minutes and It’s All Wrong

The workbook slid across the table. Five minutes. Done. Every answer wrong. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone, and your child is almost certainly not lazy. When a child rushes through homework and gets everything wrong, they are almost always communicating something about how the work feels right now. The rushing is a

My Child Hates Maths

My Child Hates Maths and Says They’re Just Not a Maths Person

“I’m not a maths person.” Most children who say this have reached a conclusion based on something that happened. Not a fixed truth about themselves. This guide looks at where the belief comes from and what tends to help.

Inside Our Learning Space
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Inside Our Learning Space — A Look at the Spark Logic Academy Classroom

The first thing most families notice when they walk into Spark Logic Academy is the lion mural on the wall. It is hard to miss. It covers most of one wall and it was put there deliberately, because the environment children learn in matters more than most people initially expect. This post is a look

My Child Spends an Hour on Homework
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My Child Spends an Hour on Homework but Nothing Actually Gets Done

The homework book is open on the table. The pencil is there. Your child is sitting in the right place at roughly the right time. Forty-five minutes later, you come back to check and find two sentences written, a small collection of eraser shavings, and a child who looks surprised that you are asking about

Why Does My Child Keep Forgetting
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Why Does My Child Keep Forgetting Things They Just Learned?

You went through it together recently. They understood it, or so it seemed. Now it is as if you never covered it at all. This is one of the most common things parents describe, and it very rarely means what parents fear.

Why Does My Child Need to Be Reminded

Why Does My Child Need to Be Reminded to Do Homework Every Single Day?

You remind them after school. Nothing happens. You remind them again after dinner. Still nothing. By the time homework actually gets done, you have asked four times and lost your patience twice. This is one of the most common things parents describe, and it is almost never about a child being deliberately difficult.

My Child Gives Up the Moment
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Child Gives Up When Things Gets Hard

You set them up at the desk, they look at the first question, and they close the book. Or they say they cannot do it before they have genuinely tried. This pattern comes up constantly in conversations with parents, and there are usually a few specific reasons behind it.

My Child Understands It at Home
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My Child Understands It at Home but Forgets Everything at School

Your child sits at the kitchen table and works through the maths. You explain it, they follow along, they do a few on their own, and they get them right. You feel reasonably confident they understand it. Then a few days later the test comes back and it is like they have never seen the

How Long Should Homework
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How Long Should Homework Actually Take? (And What to Do When It Goes Over)

Most parents have sat next to their child for two hours wondering if this is normal. It is not. There is a simple guideline for every year level, and when homework runs consistently over it, that is worth paying attention to.