Well, yeah, Heat, we know it's boring, but you just gotta force yourself.
There are ways to make it . . . tolerable. 1) Find a goal and really convince yourself that getting through these assignments is absolutely essential. 2) Find a way to make the study less painful - do it in groups. Study groups are amazing at making the boring, a little less boring. You all have the same goal. 3) Restrict access to distractions until the work is done. This is difficult - it may require parental involvement. But if you love TV, Netflix, movies, or are a gamer - parents can pull that plug until you show homework success. Sometimes even removal of the computer is required - unless you need it for a class. But boy, does it ever work. It makes all of those media/game things you love into a reward for finishing assignments.
Or you could spend a few weeks with MY parents. If my chores and homework weren't done by dinner, I didn't GET dinner.
I think the secret is the intellectual/emotional framing here: you see homework as boring and taking you away from a dozen things that you would rather do. The moment that you can see homework as a stepping stone into something that you really WANT, that problem is gone.
In America (if that's where you are), grades are very important to getting accepted into a college program. If you're going to study a trade, you just need to pay for class . . .
Good luck.
There are ways to make it . . . tolerable. 1) Find a goal and really convince yourself that getting through these assignments is absolutely essential. 2) Find a way to make the study less painful - do it in groups. Study groups are amazing at making the boring, a little less boring. You all have the same goal. 3) Restrict access to distractions until the work is done. This is difficult - it may require parental involvement. But if you love TV, Netflix, movies, or are a gamer - parents can pull that plug until you show homework success. Sometimes even removal of the computer is required - unless you need it for a class. But boy, does it ever work. It makes all of those media/game things you love into a reward for finishing assignments.
Or you could spend a few weeks with MY parents. If my chores and homework weren't done by dinner, I didn't GET dinner.
I think the secret is the intellectual/emotional framing here: you see homework as boring and taking you away from a dozen things that you would rather do. The moment that you can see homework as a stepping stone into something that you really WANT, that problem is gone.
In America (if that's where you are), grades are very important to getting accepted into a college program. If you're going to study a trade, you just need to pay for class . . .
Good luck.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
