Kumon and other subjects - She's resisting and panicking?

Question

My young sister has been doing Kumon for about 6 months. Despite being intermediate level in school, she's struggling terribly on level 1. For a start, every time shes made to do Kumon, she puts up an almighty fight. Every day. And when she does it, she starts to panic and get answers to simple questions wrong. Recently, she scored a test full of Bs and a D after 17 minutes. It's more than frustrating, because she used to be capable of scoring 11 - 13 minutes with only A. How to you get a child to understand the positives of Kumon, to stop her resisting every time and panicking during the test? We've tried the sanction method - but even this doesn't work. Is it some sort of psychology!? Please help.

Answer 1

HAH! get your child to realize the positives of Kumon? I'm 16 and trust me, although I now realize the positives of Kumon, you shouldn't rely on that route. Because it won't work. What your sister is...is a normal kid enrolled in Kumon. And in this case you should just  push her to keep doing it, I was forced to do level G (adding and subtracting fractions, multiplying them, combining, simplifying expressions? I think stuff of that nature) at the age of 8, and ten pages of it at a time. So what would happen is that every day I'd come home from school, and then I'd be forced to spend 2 to 3 hours doing that, all the while crying (genuinely like I'm going to die crying). Like jeez I was a tame child and I still put up an almighty fight at times. And although I had little idea what I was doing, I got it done day after day after day until eventually I quit at level I at 10, changed schools and stuff...and then I never had problems with math again. As in, I never struggle in school with math. And you know what? I got like, 20 wrongs, 30 wrongs on that 10 page stuff, it wasn't easy stuff, I had to correct them too. (after a while I got it down to one hour consistently for 10 pages...I still had tonnes of mistakes though)

So to sum up, stop putting pressure on her to do well on tests if you were before, tell her it doesn't matter, because she's going to do worksheets everyday, and your average human being cannot help but get better at this kind of thing with forced repetition and who knows...she might get good at it O_O You can't panic on tests you know like the back of your hand...Oh mind you I started learning times tables in kindergarten and that kind of stuff so I was doing math for a looonng time, 6 months is a pretty short amount of time to draw conclusions...

Answer 2

I know a website that will help you a lot!!!- http://www.kumonlafayetteca.com/index_fi...

Answer 3

Well im not sure if this helps but every kid HATES Kumon. I did it for about 1 year and my parents pulled me out because i started to get really frustrated and one time i got so frustrated i punched my wall and i had to go to the hospital because i broke my index and middle finger also i had a brake down doing it =S.

What im trying to say is she does understand the possessives but she doesn't like doing it and thinks that it isn't necessary, if its work, she wont don't want to do it. I think that maybe you could reward her if she gets under 15 minutes and an A grade or 100 with a treat of some kind and also show LOTS of praise when she does very well (100).

Im not sure if this helps but I was a 12 year boy with old steady gradest when i started and i personally never learned to like it.

Good Luck!!