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Your role as a parent will play a big part in helping your child achieve all the successes you know they’re capable of achieving at school. Their academic career might only be starting, but the steps you take as a parent and the ways in which you support them outside of the classroom will give them the best chances of success at school today and the years ahead of them. Find out more about what you can do to help below.

Create a Routine

Creating strong routines should be at the heart of everything you do for your kids. When they have the security that comes with a good routine in their home life, they’ll be free to go to school in the right state of mind and find success in their studies there. That’s certainly the way it should be from your point of view as a parent. Good routines are vital for developing children.

Dedicate a Space in the Home to Where They Can Study

It’s a good idea to have a place in your home where your child can study and complete homework. As a parent, you can’t do these things for them but you can make them a lot easier by providing the environment and facilities they need to get these things done. You could make space for them in the home office or you could set up a desk area in their bedroom.

Explore Their Creative Interests with Them

As well as helping them to succeed academically, you should also be doing all you can to help your kids explore their creative side moving forward. The creative side of the brain is important and showing your child how to express themselves creatively is an important skill for them to possess as well. Try different creative pursuits until you find the one that’s going to work best for you.

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Do Fun Writing Exercises at Home

There are lots of writing exercises you can try at home with your loss if you want to. Encouraging them to write and express themselves from an early age might be exactly what they need as they’re developing. That practice at home on top of what they’re learning at school can be hugely beneficial. These narrative writing prompts for 2nd grade might help you get started with this.

Read Together

Finally, you should be careful not to overlook the power and importance of reading together at home. When you and your child take the time to read together from an early age, it’s been proven that your child benefits from that in terms of their development. Read to them when they’re small and then encourage them to take part as they learn to read.

Boosting your child’s academic success and their educational attainment isn’t always easy, but you do have to play your part if you want that to happen. Learning is not something that only takes places at school and the steps you take today will contribute towards what they achieve later.

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Kori

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Kori is a late diagnosed autistic/ADHD mom. She is currently located in Albany, NY where she is raising a neurodiverse family. Her older daughter is non-speaking autistic (and also has ADHD and Anxiety) and her youngest daughter is HSP/Gifted. A blogger, podcaster, writer, product creator, and coach; Kori shares autism family life- the highs, lows, messy, and real. Kori brings her own life experiences as an autistic woman combined with her adventures in momming to bring you the day-to-day of her life at home. Kori is on a mission to empower moms of autistic children to make informed parenting decisions with confidence and conviction.

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