My child knows best and won’t listen to me

Ending up in arguments with your children over their homework?

Parents have expressed to me, my child comes home with schoolwork, maths work and they don’t know what to do. So I sit down with them and I try to work through the actual homework with them. But it comes across to my child that I’m telling them how to do a particular method and the child says no no no that’s not the way we actually do it. It’s this way and I can see that getting it wrong. And when I try to point it out no we don’t do it that way and we just end up in an awful mess.

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Hi. I’m Steve Cornelius

During my time as an educator with over 30+ years’ experience, I have been a classroom teacher, a Principal of three Schools and the Manager of Resource Teachers of Learning and Behaviour.

I work currently out of a Red Beach Primary School providing direct maths tutoring for students who need that extra learning to boost maths progress and confidence. I have been having a great deal of success in improving maths achievement levels for students. One of my independent on-line students (who does not see me directly), has progressed her maths achievement level nearly 3 years in 21 months and is now achieving above her Actual Age in Math. 

I am able to support students through ‘live video feed’ when they have a particular ‘struggle/frustration’ in math. Parents have found this very useful preventing many family math conflicts.

If I was to be asked what my biggest takeaway would be when teaching/tutoring students it would be:

“My biggest thrill is to see the smile on a student’s face when they have succeeded at something they thought was impossible.”