How to Support your Child Academically at Home Without the Battles
December 7, 2021
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I don’t know about you, but the last 18+ months have been tricky for our children (and parents) who have had to change up their normal learning environments. I’ve heard from a number of parents and have felt this pain point myself. Even before all of the shifts in the last couple of years, helping our children with homework can sometimes be quite the battle.
Today on the My Child Will Thrive Podcast, I sat down with public school teacher and CEO for Study Help, Aimee Buckley. Aimee is a veteran school teacher with over 20 years of experience teaching students with mild to moderate disabilities. Aimee saw a need for children to receive help from qualified teachers outside of the normal classroom hours. In this interview, Aimee takes us through her recommendations for creating a happy homework environment, how to support our kids without the battles and what to do if you just need help. I hope you enjoy this episode with Aimee as much as I did!
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- How the events of the last 18 months impacted our children’s learning
- The family dynamic shifts when parents have to become teachers
- The ways parents can support their children’s schooling without the battles
- Aimee’s strategies on how to make homework less of a hassle
- Questions parents should be asking to find quality, individualized academic support
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Show Notes
- How children in different situations have responded to the changes in the last 18 months. (5:08)
- Has this new change impacted the parent-child relationship? (10:06)
- Ideas and strategies for parents to implement a healthy homework environment that cuts out the hassle and fights. (17:36)
- How to find educational help and expertise outside of the home if parents decide they need more help and more about Aimee’s company, Study Help. (24:55)
- Aimee’s biggest pieces of advice for children and parents who are struggling right now. (31:04)
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More about Aimee Buckley
Aimee Buckley is a veteran public school teacher and founder of Study Help Inc – a tutoring platform that connects top-quality teachers with students who are looking for a better understanding and stronger academic skills. For the first 5 years of her career as a teacher, Aimee taught students with emotional issues due to neglect or trauma and eventually moved to teaching students with mild to moderate disabilities in her current position that she has held for 20 years. Most teachers are experts on the content they deliver, Aimee is an expert at teaching.
00:01 Tara Hunking:
This is My Child Will Thrive and I'm your host, Tara Hunkin, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Certified GAPs practitioner, Restorative Wellness Practitioner, and mother. I'm thrilled to share with you the latest information, tips, resources, and tools to help you on the path to recovery for your child with ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, or learning disabilities.
My own experiences with my daughter combined with as much training as I can get my hands on research I can dig into and conferences I can attend have helped me to develop systems and tools for parents like you who feel overwhelmed, trying to help their children. So sit back as I share another great topic to help you on your journey. A quick disclaimer, before we get started.
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2:03 Tara Hunkin:
Hi, welcome back to the My Child Will Thrive podcast. I'm Tara Hunkin and I'm excited to bring to you today an interview that I just recorded with Aimee Buckley.
Aimee is a teacher and she's been working in education for more than a couple of decades and in particular, she is an expert in teaching kids that have learning challenges. So we're gonna dive right in to help you identify how you can best support your child academically, while you're working on all the other things that you're already doing with your child. And when you can identify to get outside help to help you do that as well.
Before we dive into the interview, I just want to remind you if you enjoy the My Child Will Thrive Podcast, please recommend it to a friend. And if you have time, if you can take the time to rate and review us on your podcast platform, that would be great. The more people that do that, the more those podcast platforms will show the My Child Will Thrive podcast to other parents like you and me. So without further ado, let's dive into that interview with Aimee Buckley.
3:23 Tara Hunkin:
Hi everyone. I want to welcome you back and welcome today Aimee Buckley to the My Child Will Thrive podcast. Aimee's a veteran public school teacher and founder of Study Help Inc, which is a tutoring platform that connects top quality teachers with students who are looking for a better understanding and stronger academic skills. For the first five years of her career as a teacher, Aimee taught students with emotional issues due to neglect or trauma, and eventually moved to teaching students with mild to moderate disabilities in her current position that she's held for 20 years.
Most teachers are experts in the content they deliver, but Aimee is an expert at teaching, which is why I was excited to have her here to talk to us today because our children often have different types of learning challenges that they have to navigate through the years and some are more severe than others, but all of them need an individual approach to learning in some way, shape or form. So I'm really excited to have you here with us today to talk about that and some other things, challenges that we've come up against in the last 18 months.
4:36 Aimee Buckley:
Thank you for inviting me. I'm excited to be here.
4:39 Tara Hunkin:
So let's dive right in and talk about that, which is how do you think, and what are you seeing in your students that the even