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By Jessica Shepherd, education correspondent
Five out of six parents find helping with homework too difficult, study shows
If parents are unable to help with homework, it lowers children’s self-confidence, the survey found. Photograph: Ableimages/Getty Images
Five out of six parents struggle to help their pre-adolescent children with their homework, a survey has revealed.
Some 83% of parents with nine to 13-year-olds admitted to pollsters that they had been unable to do homework tasks set for their children.
Fathers find helping with homework harder than mothers do, the survey of 2,000 parents for Becta, the government agency for technology in education, found. The parents were equally split across all socio-economic groups.
More than a third – 35% – of fathers told pollsters they frequently struggled to help their children with homework, compared with 12% of mothers.
Almost a fifth of parents – 19% – said being unable to help with their children’s homework made them embarrassed.
Maths, followed by science, causes the most difficulty. Maths was the hardest to help with for 37% of parents, while 27% said science was the most troublesome.
Mothers are more than twice as likely as fathers to name maths as the hardest topic – 49%, compared with 22%. One in three fathers find English is toughest to assist with, compared with 10% of mothers.
The pollsters also quizzed 2,000 nine- to 13-year-olds, 58% of whom said their parents often confuse them when trying to help them with homework because they use out-of-date methods…..Continue reading
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