Younger teenagers prefer to do homework in the company of their peers, and high school students prefer to do it alone. But it is they who value the participation and help of their parents more than other schoolchildren.
Younger teenagers prefer to do homework in the company of their peers, and high school students prefer to do it alone. But they are the ones who value the participation and help of their parents more than other schoolchildren. “11-14-year-olds learn about themselves in communication with other children: they compare, evaluate, contrast, learn from each other,” explains child psychologist Natalya Evsikova. That’s why they love to work together. The need for this passes by about 15-16 years old, now most teenagers need to be alone with themselves more often, try on themselves, feel their independence. The help of parents in their affairs allows you to master a new, partnership way of communicating with adults.”
* Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 201, vol. 32, iss. 2.