From the author: Notes from a psychologist on how to do homework Oh I see Makarenko Oh I see Lesgaft, and Korczak, and Ushinsky Oh I see, in reality, every single one of my teachers They they call me And they call me to take my place next to them In the halls of Shambhala Where great teachers live forever! From the Saga of the Great Souls of Teachers Every time I see how all my relatives, instead of their own affairs, spend their free time standing over the heads of schoolchildren with voluptuousness sorting out their homework assignments, then I involuntarily remember the greatest teachers and their testaments. It is no coincidence that the Finnish education model, recognized as one of the best in the world, places an emphasis not on sitting together over textbooks with a child, but on walks in the forest and playing sports. The result, as they say, is obvious. A smile and awareness in the eyes of a teenager instead of a nervous tic and tortured and memorized arithmetic. The choice, as they say, is yours. This is how bad advice appeared. So: 1. Remember - home lessons are a serious, difficult test that requires a special attitude and strength. 2. It is best to do homework late in the evening on an empty stomach, when the child is tired and ready to crack. 3. If you do sit down to study in the morning, then try your best to stay with them until the evening, no matter how hard it may be. 4. Gather everyone - grandparents, aunts, uncles and other relatives. You definitely cannot do without them in helping your child. 5. Constantly express dissatisfaction with the quality of presentation of the material, handwriting, and text design. Make them rewrite the text until you are completely satisfied. 6. Threaten in case of disobedience with all conceivable and inconceivable prohibitions, competently tactically influence psychological pain points. 7. Scream, groan, get nervous, worry, tell them that you spent all your free time on lessons, which you could spend more profitably shopping or spa. 8. Threaten that if the child does not do his homework, he will become a useless homeless person, a loser, and will scavenge in garbage dumps. 9. Make your child repeat definitions until he’s blue in the face. Change the wording, confuse it, go back to the beginning. 10. Tear out the sheets of notebook, tear them, throw pens, putty, hit your hands with a ruler and do not spare the slaps. And most importantly. Get it into your head that a child’s best friends are lessons. Others will wait until better times.