Creating an at home gameplan is important, so that students know what is expected of them. This means that establishing your household academic culture is important. What are your traditions? What are your idioms that you recite? What are the roles and goals of each member of the clan?
If you say things like, “we don’t really care about grades, we care about effort” you’re creating a huge gray area for your student. A student immediately interprets that as, “my mom doesn’t have a way of monitoring my effort nor does she have a way of keeping me accountable.” Remember, grades are the most precise, quantitative indicator of qualitative effort. That means poor grades often means poor effort. Of course we must look at the individual circumstances of the student.
Because this is a particularly individual sphere of adolescence, I highly recommend you come and meet with a manager or an owner to help establish an at home gameplan. We can help. We create these tailored plans on a daily basis for students, and we’ve become quite good at helping students achieve their goals; it’s what drives us forward, so you can do more of what you love.