I thought that was a very interesting article that really hits home with me because I am known as the ultimate procrastinator. It is rarely the case that I start doing an assignment a week before it is due. I usually start my assignments the day before they are due or hours before they are due. Why is this? I honestly do not know the reason; I have been this way for as long as I can remember when it comes to doing assignments for school.
I think that Caroline’s research is interesting because it might lead to a lot of answers that teachers have been asking students for literally years. I think a big part of procrastination comes from parents and teaching their children to work efficiently and to get work done in a timely fashion. Now I am not trying to call out my parents by saying that they did a bad job in teaching me how to do my homework. And I honestly do not think it is my parents fault because I am the one that makes the decision to procrastinate and to put things off until the last minute.
Another reason for the procrastination is because like Caroline’s mother said, kids today are so many activities that it is not so much that kids are being lazy, but simply there are not enough hours in a day that time is sometimes not managed properly.
School should always be the number one priority. Parents should teach their kids to complete their school work before engaging in other activities. But some parents have problems saying no to their kids.
I personally believe that it is on the kid to get his work done and to stop procrastinating. A parent, teacher, or adult can tell a kid to stop procrastinating until they are blue in the face but it ultimately up to the child to want to change his ways.
Further research on this matter should be interesting to not only students and teachers but parents as well so that possibly everyone could be helped.
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