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Anyone here is super involved with their dc school work/revision?

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guest103 · 02/11/2021 08:37

By super involved I mean, making sure they do their homework, actually sit down with them and make sure they are doing it right. Also revise everyday with them, making sure they are doing extra work and revising etc, organizing all their revision materials. Almost as if you are their teacher/tutor?
I do all of this, I guess the reason why I do it is to make sure dc achieves the best results possible and I know dc wouldn't do revision properly if I wasn't super involved. I do believe dc would still get great results but not as good as the results achieved with my help. At school dc picks up everything easily and participates and does very well, so perhaps I should just trust dc more and back off a bit? I just can't do it for some reason.
Wonder if anyone is/was in this situation?

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Mummy195 · 02/11/2021 08:50

I have a friend who does this. Her DS goes to a super selective and I wondered if he would have been able to without her help and if she changed jobs and was somehow unable to be there, could he cope?

Personally, I have always been a bit envious of these kind of parents, because I threaten "things will change around here" to my DC all the time. They laugh because things never change. My DC were able to get into their selective schools without help and had to learn to organise themselves. Over time, they improve. I did steer them in the right direction, by showing them how to get organised and so did the school, but that is that. As they are growing I'm quite confident that they can get along well with their work without me and their grades have improved too. So much so that I send them to boarding school later. lol.

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