If you have never taught before, it can be easy to spend way too much time teaching while not giving your kids enough to actually do. Aim for short lessons and two or three times as much time dedicated for your children to complete tasks. Instead of requiring them to read a certain number of pages, choose a quantity of time, like twenty to thirty minutes. For maths problems, have your kids roll dice to create their own problems that they can work on for a set time, instead of having to write them all out yourself.