Parenting and Family
Why not simply finish homework a child cannot do?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
Completing it for them does not mean they learned. One missing assignment may be avoided today, but the question remains unclear and the same problem will still be unmanageable next time.
With mathematics, parents can think alongside the child: what is asked and why should the equation be arranged this way? Guide understanding of calculation rather than fill answers directly. Help them gradually think and become capable themselves.
Later, parents cannot continually go to a workplace to finish projects and reports either. Teaching now should consider not only submission today but what was learned and whether the child can face life’s tasks independently later.