Ways to Help Your Child Focus

If your child is not focusing and is doing poorly in school, there is usually a long list of possible sources leading to undesirable behavior and/or grades.  But the difficulty is often the struggle to be patient with your child while searching out the reasons for poor performance without a hasty rush to premature judgment and consequences.

The first step needs to be an open conversation with your kids during a calm time when neither you nor your children are overly stressed.  No matter what your child’s personality is, patience should always be at the top of the list in handling a stressful school scenario – which is easier said than done.  Some children are so upset with the problems already and desperate to find solutions that impatience from you the parent is just the last straw before giving up or melting down. In that patient and calm conversation, you need to open the door of communication as wide as possible and allow your child to express what he or she believes is causing the problems.

Communication with your child’s teacher is also very high on the problem-solving agenda.  If there is not already a system of regular communication set up between you and the teacher, figure out a system that would work for you, your child, and your child’s teacher so that you are on the same page as the teacher as much and as quickly as possible.  But being in regular communication with the teacher while your child is door poorly is essential to solving the problem quickly and efficiently.  Sometimes just hearing (or reading, etc.) that your child was involved in this conflict or that issue the very same day allows you the parent to intervene and nip things in the bud so to speak because you might recognize a problem long before the teacher may understand what is going on because you know your child so well.  For example, a teacher may not realize your child’s refusal to participate in classroom conversations is not because he is being rebellious or uncooperative but because other students may be ridiculing his answers long after class is over causing the child to no longer want to speak up.  A teacher may also not know of a problem at home such as parental fighting or divorce that can cause a child to act out at school for no apparent reason which causes the behavior to be addressed or punished without any thought to what is behind it.  The teacher may still need to allow promised consequences coming from a poorly handled situation at school.  But if the teacher is in regular communication with the parents, she will be able to use that opportunity to benefit the student even more in a learning situation showing compassion and understanding while also enforcing boundaries and expecting better behavior from your child.

Discovering the reasons behind your child not focusing and doing poorly in school is the biggest part of the battle.  Once the whys are known, the solutions are much easier to find and try with greater potential of actually fixing the problem and not just pushing it into a closet to surface again at a later date.

There are actually a lot of ways for you to help you children focus, concentrate and do well in school. One of which is by letting your children take brain boosting supplement to enhance memory, focus, concentration and brain performance.