Is anyone else finding it hard to HS boys?
My 9 year old has a horrible attention span(at least for school, if it's something HE wants to do, like building Legos he can concentrate) and guesses a lot on answers I think so he can just "get it over with". It's really starting to frustrate me.
Is it a boy thing, an age thing,or just us? I really need to figure out how to work with him as I am getting WAY too stressed and that leads to my yelling at him :-(
I'm fairly certain its a boy thing. Everyone that I talk to has these problems with boys. Some have the problem with girls, but it seems far less common. This is also one of the reasons we decided to homeschool. We didn't think we would like the schools methods of dealing with our sons. I think it does get a bit better as they get older though. We started at age 6 and now he is 10. He's much better than he was in the beginning, and still a bit shy of where I would like him to be. I still have to remind him frequently to either "focus" or "get busy". I don't have the same issues with his slightly younger sister.
Wow, so many of you sound like me and my HS experience. DS can point to problems on a page and do it on his own,but focusing on what I ask him to do is difficult. He hates to write, but I think writing is VERY important, so I don't let it slide. I also am making sure his penmanship is legible. If HE sometimes can't read what he wrote, there's issues.
We've been taking a midmorning break and that does help both of us.Thanks so much gals for the reminders..we're homeschooling cause if WE have "issues" and get frustrated with our sons, just think how the teachers who aren't as invested as us act..
Sounds like normal behavior for a girl or a boy. This is why we love unschooling and my children learn so well that way.
I don't know. I don't think it matters whether it is boys or girls. Some kids are fidgety some aren't. I have had all kinds of learners. We have 8 boys, 7 girls.
My 5 year old does this ... he's been diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder. We are trying to get him "treatment" (retraining his brain to process auditory information), but it's pretty expensive. I don't believe that this is just a "boy" thing.
I'm going through this with my 11 yr old, and this was our first year homeschooling, so it was very frustrating! I have no advice, but I'm glad to know i'm not alone
Totally a boy thing, and age and style of learning. When I switched from textbook/workbook learning to child-led hands on/visual learning - it was like night and day!!! Plus, I insituted my Behavior Bucks system - where they have to earn Behavior Bucks in order to rent everything they love for 24 hours (bike, DS, Wii, etc).
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- bookmommy
on Sep. 27, 2011 at 11:01 AM