Assisting Your Children With Academic Assignments.
Although sometimes you can get busy with your everyday life such as making dinner and getting ready for work, it can be completely enjoyable to spend an evening helping your children with their schoolwork. It can be a great way to relive those carefree moments of your youth and enjoy theirs as well as they tell you about things that happened in their day at school.
One thing I have to be incredibly proud of is that my children tend to get their homework assignments done on time and usually put quite a bit of effort into them. I think their good grades reflect how hard they work all year long. I would like to think they take after me.
Art class had always been something of an easier class for me. I had a natural aptitude for it and enjoyed it immensely. The inspiration that could be drawn from anywhere, a crumpled soda can, or the shadow of a tree branch on the wall could give you ideas for something else. I always loved seeing what everyone else could come up with, I think that was the best part of art class. Given one idea, many minds could see it in a completely different light.
I began reminiscing after my daughter brought home a sheet of paper with half of a magazine ad where a beautiful teenager was displaying a crystal necklace glued to it. The assignment was to draw the other half of the image as best as you could.
My son had to make a collage from magazine advertisements. I helped him select a few pages out of the magazine to choose from to put into his collage. A toothbrush, a pair of princess cut engagement rings, a damask sofa, and a charming bedding collection. It was certainly fun to remember the times when I had to do these in class.
My daughter seemed to be having quite a bit of trouble, so I offered a few suggestions. She liked the one that had her try something she thought was easier first. She thought about it for a minute and agreed to try it. We went through the magazine for my son and she chose a set of hobo handbags. We cut it in half and glued it to a piece of paper.
I am so proud of her work that the hobo bags ended up on the wall. The one she did for the school ended up with a fantastic grade and I know she had to be proud of herself. So a little hard work does pay off, I hope she understands that as she gets older.
