Ten Things Your Kids Can Do When They Ask If They Can "Help" You With Your Online Classes

Many parents who have undertaken online classes in order to earn an online degree have kids who are interested in helping out. Here are ten things your kids can do when they ask if they can “help” with your online classes.

1. Quiz you with flashcards
Writing your study materials on flashcards and having your kids quiz you is a great way to get them involved that will actually help you study at the same time.

2. Be your audience for a presentation
If you’ll be giving a presentation through video or audio, get your kids to sit down and pretend to be your audience while you practice.

3. Help you brainstorm ideas
Kids often can come up with creative, unfiltered ideas. Enlist your kids in your next brainstorming session and see what they come up with.

4. Listen to your paper and see if it makes sense
If your paper is well-written, even your kids should be able to understand what you’re talking about, or at least to pick up on jarring sentences. Read aloud to them and you’ll both catch mistakes as you go.

5. Make you dinner
Sometimes it may be a great help just for them to make you dinner while you work!

6. Show you a great trick for the computer
If your kid is a computer whiz, see if he or she knows any great computer tricks that could speed up your work.

7. Read a book in the room and keep you company while you work
When you need quiet working time but have kids who want to help, ask them to read quietly in the same room to “keep you company.”

8. Look up extra materials online
Give kids a research project and ask them to look up information online for you.

9. Read aloud to you while you do work around the house
Have them read your assignments out loud to you while you do housework.

10. Give you a break after a long study session
After a long study session, your kids can help you by participating in a play break!