Helping kids with home assignments appears to be dogmatic in the US educational system. Thus, many

working parents face some troubles, but are still active in their kids’ studying lives.

Parents helping kids with homework

English and Math are the most popular subjects parents help kids with

Parents helping kids with homework

of parents aged 18-24

of parents aged 25-44

Younger parents care less about their kids’ homework, while elder ones pay more atten-tion to the children’s studies.

47%

39% of moms

of dadsDAN

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5 out of 10 parents claim that they experience troubles while helping their

kids with homework

One in five parents said they were regularly surprised by the difficulty of the work their children brought home to complete

Seven out of 10 said they would spend more time helping with homework if they were more confident in their own abilities in maths and English.More than nine out of 10 parents agreed that helping their children at home made a difference to their academic achieve-ments at school.

2% of parents say that they’ve never helped

their kids with homework

WHY?

31,6% say their kids refuse

to get help from them

45,5% don’t understand

the material

21% are too busy

Students with two active-in-studies parents are happy at school 52% more then the ones with two passive parents

On average, students with active-in-studies parents get A’s 51% more then the ones with two passive parents

How to Help a Child?

Set the regular homework-time

Get rid of all the possible distractions

Prepare materials and show the resources

Be the vivid example: interested and interesting

High

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Choose the right place for homework

1 out of 6 families does all the homework for its kids

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53% of them do it every day

43% of parents help kids with homework

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ResourcesKelton Research using an e-mail invitation and an online surveyThe survey commissioned by the Department for Education and SkillsUS Department of EducationNational Center for Family Literacy http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2014/03/27/study-says-parents-help-with-homework-does-more-harm-than-good/http://stophomework.com/new-survey-43-percent-of-parents-have-done-their-kids-homework/288http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/04/and-dont-help-your-kids-with-their-homework/358636/