Is 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日常使用手机使我们非常依赖它们，甚至分散了我们的注意力.
We allfeel obliged to check it every so often, even when no notification has buzzed through(there’s a real word for this called ‘恐惧症‘!).
但是，这对您为HSC学习的孩子意味着什么？
At an obvious level,他们的智能手机屏幕时间越高，他们学习的时间就越少。如果日常电脑前10个小时,再保险ally only gives them 6 hours to study — that does not count mealtimes and other basic activities.
如果您的孩子在睡觉前打电话，也会影响他们睡眠的质量反过来，保留记忆的质量，这对于在考试和作业上表现良好很重要。
A study done by University of Californiaon the relationship between smartphone screen-time and the wellbeing of fifteen-year olds further finds that ‘在智能手机上花费不到一个小时的时间不到一小时后，他们的福祉开始减少‘.
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无疑使其成为所有父母的关注而且，您可能想知道如何帮助您的孩子在学习时阻止他们分心。
对于有孩子学习HSC的父母这是一个更加相关的问题，因为在HSC中表现良好是开放各种大学学位选择的一种常见方法。
立即对孩子的电话使用施加时间限制可能很容易。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可以在这个过程中提供帮助。
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
If you and your child want to check their screen time together,这样做很容易.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个小时的屏幕时间！当他们可以学习，从事课外活动或任何追求更健康的习惯的事情时，他们会吃掉很多时间！
Tips to Prevent Your Child’s Phone from Being a Study Distraction
一旦您与孩子谈论了他们的电话使用及其对学习质量的影响，就有许多方法可以防止孩子的手机对学习的大量分心。
以下是您可以与孩子合作的三个技巧，以阻止他们在学习时分心！
Tip #1: Phone-free studying
看不到手机而没有手机在武器范围内可以为您的孩子的生产力带来奇迹。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.
It 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
If 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分钟学习，休息5分钟，重复），其中应用程序在25分钟的学习过程中阻止用户在手机上玩。
These apps areproven to boost their user’s focus on their work, while giving a structured balance between work and rest- 此外，其中许多应用程序可以免费下载！
提示＃3：花时间进行免费电话活动
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一种或另一种方式改善孩子的批判性思维或社交技能，这对他们的健康同样重要，因此他们在HSC评估中的表现同样重要。
不必在手机上冷火鸡，但是让您的孩子对何时不那么健康或富有成效的屏幕时间提高意识。
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.
