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Do You Think Your Child is Being Lazy with Their Schoolwork?
How to tell if your kid is being lazy and how to help them overcome it.
We cannot see inside our child’s mind. What seems simple and easy to us, as adults, could be taking a great deal of cognitive effort for them. This does not mean there is anything wrong with their brain. It just means that they are still learning to learn.
To know if our child is being lazy with schoolwork is not easy, because we can’t see how hard their brain is working.
However, we can see if they are lazy. If laziness is a habit in their life, then it is likely that habit is also affecting their schoolwork.
We can see if our kid is lazy by observing how well they complete physical tasks. Most kids have chores. Do they complete their chores well? If you ask them to wipe the table do they do a good job? Or do they just wipe one corner?
What do they do in their free time? Do they choose to do activities that require an effort of some kind? It could be a physical effort, but it could also be cognitive.
Sometimes we think if our kids choose to play video games in their free time that is being lazy. But not all video games are created equally, some require problem-solving and creativity while others…
