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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
Praise the sitting down at the desk, not only the finished piece. If recognition only shows up when something is completed, most weeks it never shows up at all.
Say what you actually saw, and say it close to the moment: you sat down twice today when you clearly did not want to. Small rewards work too, as long…
When a young person tells you something in their own blunt words, meet them there. Laughing together buys more trust than a well judged correction ever will.
Correct the language and you sort yourself into the same bin as every other disappointed adult, and after that the useful information stops arriving.…
Put the uncertainty at the front. Not Thursday, possibly Friday, most likely Monday is worth far more to the other person than a confident yes you cannot keep.
It feels worse to say, which is why people avoid it. But a hedge given early costs you nothing, while a promise broken later costs twice: the thing…
Score each target from one to five rather than done or not done, and have the teacher say a word about it and initial the sheet before the child leaves the room.
Half the work finished earns a three. That matters enormously for a child whose usual score would be nothing at all, because a pass or fail sheet…
Looking for a whole subject rather than a single practice? Start from the nine areas.
Before anything else, check the child actually knows what the homework is. Most homework goes missing at that first step, not at the effort step.
It might be on the board, on the school portal or in the planner with the teacher having glanced at it, and any of those is fine as long as it can be…