我s your child always on their phone when they’re meant to be studying? You’re probably wondering, ‘How can I help them stop getting distracted while studying?’
Not to worry, we’ll be answering your question with three valuable tips, so your child can focus better while studying for the HSC.
让我们开始吧！
手机的问题
你能做什么？
How to Check Your Child’s Screen Time
Tips to Prevent Your Child’s Phone from Being a Study Distraction
手机的问题
Phones are now an essential part of our daily lives. While they let you communicate with family members and your children whenever and wherever, there is no doubt that每日使用手机让我们相当依赖于它们，甚至会分散我们周围的东西.
We allfeel obliged to check it every so often, even when no notification has buzzed through(there’s a real word for this called ‘罗维尼亚‘!).
但是，这对你的孩子为学习HSC的孩子是什么意思？
At an obvious level,智能手机屏幕时间越高，他们必须学习的时间越少。我f their daily screen-time is at 10 hours, that really only gives them 6 hours to study — that does not count mealtimes and other basic activities.
如果您的孩子在睡前前进手机，它也会影响他们的睡眠质量反过来，他们的记忆保留质量，这对于在考试和任务中表现良好的重要性。
A study done by University of Californiaon the relationship between smartphone screen-time and the wellbeing of fifteen-year olds further finds that ‘经过一点点不到一小时，每天花在智能手机上度过的一天，他们的幸福就开始减少了‘.
This may make high smartphone screen times the biggest obstacle to them acing the HSC.
你能做什么？
电话使用的负面影响毫无疑问使其成为所有父母的担忧你可能想知道如何帮助你的孩子阻止他们在学习时分心。
对于父母与学习HSC的儿童，在HSC中表现良好是一个更具相关问题，是开放广泛的大学学位选择的一种常用方式。
可能会瞬间施加对孩子的手机使用量的时间限制。然而，a better way to promote your child’s sense of self-responsibility is to firstly have a thorough and understanding conversation with them.
Ask about their experience with their phone screen-times when studying.Talk about how they would like to approach minimising their screen time and howyou可以帮助这个过程。
Above all, it’s important torespect their boundaries and maintain trust with your child, particularly when they are already under the pressure of the HSC— your child wants to do well just as much as you want them to.
How to Check Your Child’s Screen Time
我f you and your child want to check their screen time together,这很容易这样做.Open your phone and go to settings. Go to battery usage, then show usage by activity.
How much do they use their phone in an average week? 10 hours? 50 hours? Or even more?
高水平的屏幕时间是正常的。大多数学生平均每周40-50小时的屏幕时间！当他们可以学习，努力追求更健康的习惯的东西时，他们吃了很多时间。
Tips to Prevent Your Child’s Phone from Being a Study Distraction
一旦你与孩子的对话有关他们的电话使用情况以及对学习质量的影响，有很多方法可以防止孩子的手机对他们的学习感到沮丧。
以下是三个技巧，您可以与您的孩子合作，以阻止他们在学习时分心！
Tip #1: Phone-free studying
无法看到手机而不是在武器队内，可以让您的孩子的生产力令人讨厌。Phone-free studying can be done by having hold of your child’s phone (with their consent) for the time period of their studying or placing the phone far away from their study space.
我t is an obvious tip, but a tip that is rarely implemented in the long run.One way you can ensure that phone-free studying isn’t just something your child does once or twice is to set time limits on their phone.
The less time your child spends on their phone, the better their long-term concentration will be!
Tip #2: Using productivity apps
我f your child usually does their study in the library or a place where they need their phone within arms-reach,implementing a productivity app on their phone and using it throughout their study session is a great option!
Apps such as ‘森林‘ and ‘Focus Keeper‘implement the Pomodoro method of studying（25分钟的学习，5分钟休息和重复），其中应用程序阻止用户在25分钟的学习期间在手机上播放。
These apps areproven to boost their user’s focus on their work, while giving a structured balance between work and rest- 加上，许多这些应用程序都可以免费下载！
提示＃3：消费空闲时间做无电话活动
Social media apps are designed to make their users stay on the app for越长越好.
TikTok, for example, is designed to have an endless scroll of videos and time can certainly fly when all of these videos are all under a minute long.Since it is easy for anyone to form an addiction to their phone, it can be crucial to incorporate a range of phone-free activities during your child’s free time.
These can be anything from some simplefamily time, a games night with their school friends, pursuing extracurricular activities at school or learning a new hobby!这些活动中的大多数有助于以某种方式提高您孩子的批判性思维或社交技巧，这与他们的福祉同样重要，因此，他们在其HSC评估中的表现。
没有必要在手机上冷却火鸡，但是让您的孩子在屏幕时间不那么健康或富有成效时培养他们的意识。
Just remember…
每个人都不同，所以it is worth the time to figure out what distraction-free techniques work best for helping your child stop getting distracted while studying. Emotional support, understanding and, sometimes, a bit of tough love for an extra push from family members can go lengths in helping your child ace their HSC!
Lynn Chenis a Content Writer at Art of Smart Education and is a Communication student at UTS with a major in Creative Writing. Lynn’s articles have been published in Vertigo, The Comma, and Shut Up and Go. In her spare time, she also writes poetry.
