No More Homework: Take Your Kid to the Museum Instead
Who knew? Taking your kids to a museum will help them get better grades than making them study for hours. So says a new study that proclaims that spending quality time with your kids will do them a lot better in school than forcing them to hit the books over and over. Research indicates adolescents are more likely to want to pursue further study if their parents take them to museums rather than homework clubs, according to newswise.com. Researchers found that adolescents who take part in cultural activities with their mother and father were more likely to aspire to continue their studies post-16 than those who didn’t. This is compared to even those who attended homework clubs or participated in extra-curricular activities. Why? Filial dynamics such as emotional closeness to parents and "cultural capital" were better predictors than more school-driven parent-child interactions, researchers found. In the study, factors relating to family emotional ...