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"  Ron Clark has been researching the way kids study for years at his model school and teacher training center in Atlanta, and now the renowned educator and best-selling author is sharing what&amp;#039;s he&amp;#039;s learned in his book The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck. We asked him for the CliffsNotes. What has surprised you most in your research about how kids learn? I used to tell parents to turn off the TV and the music and have their kids sit at the kitchen table and study quietly. I&amp;#039;ve discovered that with nothing in front of them but the material, kids feel like they&amp;#039;re missing something \u2014 so they&amp;#039;re miserable and can&amp;#039;t focus. If there&amp;#039;s a little music or the TV is on in the background, they&amp;#039;re more relaxed and will study longer and retain the information better.  What are some other ways to get kids to focus? You&amp;#039;ve got to get them to see it as fun \u2014 bonding time \u2014 so they don&amp;#039;t dread it. I like writing vocabulary words on balloons, and if the child gets the right definition, he or she gets to pop the balloon, with the goal of popping 10 a night. You&amp;#039;ve got to teach your children how to study. Show them how to read half a page of notes and then explain to you what they read. And if either of you is frustrated, take a break, bake some cookies, go for a walk. What&amp;#039;s the biggest mistake parents make?  If your kid forgets his homework at home, don&amp;#039;t bring it to school. He won&amp;#039;t learn to be responsible if he knows you&amp;#039;ll always bail him out. Those are the kids who grow up to become 20-year-olds still living at home. Resisting the urge in the moment is hard, but it&amp;#039;s important to let your children stand on their own two feet. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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