Im homeschooled and i cant get myself to sit and do my work for a long time HELP!?

Question

everytime i start my work i get bored easily

anyways of helping me!?!?

Answer 1

Home schooling is not for you and you should discuss this problem with your parents.

Answer 2

I heard a radio talk show about this very problem.  The host's answer was to take some 3x5 cards and write out a schedule for each day with specific times identified.

       8 AM - 9AM          Study math

       9AM - 9:15 AM     Check e-mail

       9:15 - 10:30AM    Study history

.....and so on.  Then stick to the schedule.  You won't get as bored knowing that it won't last that long and that you can have a short break in between studying.  If you can't stick to the schedule, use a kitchen timer to keep track of time for you.  Good luck!

Answer 3

Get a cheap timer. Set it for 20 min intervals. Move up to 30 min intervals. When the buzzer goes, "ding", get up and move. Take 10 or 15 min to do a quick chore, check an email or take a quick walk. Set the timer for breaks too. Make a rule for yourself that you cannot use the phone or turn on the TV, ot video games until after 2pm. Get up early and you will be done by the time you allow yourself this privilege. You'll Jones hard for the first two days, but then you'll start to feel the routine set in.  If you need to, spread out your weekend. Take a day off on Wednesday and Sunday, instead of the traditional weekend. This helped me. I think it will help you.

Good luck!

Answer 4

I have a similar problem. I have tried the schedule thing, but that only helped for a few days. I have found that making a list of everything (schoolwork) I need to get completed for the week and highlighting the things as I completed them, I could visually see what I needed to do. It has been working well for me. I think the key is to try out different things like making a schedule, taking frequent breaks, or my list idea and see which helps you stay on task best. Good luck!

Answer 5

Well take yourself away from things that distract you!  Or get diagnosed with ADD and take some adderall that will help u function! U better get used to it if u'd like to go to college!

Answer 6

I would make up a list of everything you have to do each day, then as you do them scratch it off the list!  Also try making a schedule with time frames to do each thing you have to do.  It will help you plan out your day!

Answer 7

Don't look at your assignments as an impossible block. Try to see your work as a lot of little assignments. If you don't see it that way, you'll get too discouraged to move on.

For example, over Christmas break, I have to do the following for my piano class:

Four pages of theory

Two technique-type songs

Play my Brahms all the way through, at full tempo.

If I looked at it like that, I'd never get it done. If I think of it in small, day-by-day terms, and then even minute-to-minute terms, I'll get it done and it will be less boring. Today, I went through a technique song and went from 66 BPM to 80 BPM for Brahms. Easy, and not boring.

Let's say you have a big history assignment. You have to read a 40-page chapter and take a quiz on it. Read ten pages*, summarize what you read -write it down-,  and then set an egg timer -or the online stopwatch I'm linking below- for five minutes. During those five minutes, play with what you just learned. If you just read about Saratoga, imagine being a soldier and fighting, or something like that. Then when the timer goes off, read another ten pages. Look over your notes, take the quiz, and there you have it. Your history is done.

You're taking it in small doses and you get to do something more interesting in between. I've found that if I do some work and then do something unrelated -like listen to music- it makes it much harder to get back in.

Even if you're lucky to have your own room -I would kill for that- don't study in there. Your room is distracting. It should be the place you go to chill out. It has all the stuff you like, and so forth. Go to the library to do your work. It's quiet, conducive to studying, and you're stuck there. If you're stuck in the library with your schoolwork, you might as well do it. You probably can't get at a computer, or not for very long, and you can't get at your cell phone. I've done my best studying in the library. Also, your family can't bother you while you're at the library.

Get your boring work done first while you're still fresh, and you won't have to deal with it when you've worn your brain out.

Answer 8

Strike bargains with yourself. When you have finished reading a chapter of your text book, you allow yourself to make a half hour phone call to your friend. That kind of stuff. Or threaten yourself with housework. If you don't read your English text, you have to go and clean the bathroom. Most of us will do anything rather than go and clean the bathroom ;)

Possibly, being Christmas time, you just need a holiday. Or maybe you are studying stuff you don't care about, so should try studying something different. Most teenagers seem to function better later at night. Maybe you ought to sleep in, then get up and eat, do some housework, then sit down to study. It doesn't matter when it gets done really. If you feel most brilliant at 10pm, but want to nap at 3pm, do your work at 10. You don't have to do all your work in one stretch either. Try alternating something intellectual with something physical. The physical may be a walk down the street to buy milk, it might be the vacuuming, gardening, putting washing on the line, cook dinner, or some craft project you're working on. As long as you shift gears in your brain. Then you can go back to your intellectual stuff. Sometimes you just can't train yourself. I've always been fidgety, and am just as fidgety with my recreation activities as I was with school work.

Answer 9

I'm not sure what home schooling is like, however when i need to study or work and have problems concentrating, i start by telling myself i will work for 15 minutes and concentrate on what I'm doing and then take a 5 minute brake and listen to music play a game, answer a question on yahoo, or just walk around.  Then repeat the process.  It is like giving yourself a reward for working on something.  As you continue provide yourself with longer work time until you can work for around 45 minutes with a 15 minute break.  I would also suggest reviewing your work during the last 2 to 5 minutes or so, depending on how long you worked, it should help you remember what you are studying.  

Good luck.

Answer 10

I am homeschooled. If you cannot sit and study for more than an hour, or maybe it is less, than you just cant. You might grow out of it someday, but in the mean time don't feel bad to take little breaks. I said LITTLE breaks. Make sure you don't get distracted during your little breaks and make them long breaks. Some good things to do in breaks are, eat a little snack, take a quick jog in your yard, practice an instrument (if you play), make a couple of doodles on a piece of paper, etc.

Answer 11

I have the same problem.I get candy and then say to my self after you have done ___ many questions you can eat it!