Parents with a positive attitude towards homework, who feel competent in subjects, are more likely to positively reinforce children’s motivation to do homework. Many parents help their children with homework either to encourage their learning or because they themselves enjoy learning.

Furthermore, parents who hold positive attitudes toward homework and feel competent in the subjects are more likely to support their children’s psychological needs and reinforce positive motivation for doing homework.

If parents feel they are capable of helping their children, they have a more positive attitude toward homework and believe that it has an intrinsic value beyond getting a higher grade.

These attitudes provide a supportive framework that prompt the children to do their homework out of intrinsic motivation – for the learning value, or because they enjoyed it rather than just because it was assigned.
Learning for intrinsic reasons has more positive emotional and cognitive benefits than learning out of a sense of duty, desire to please, or to avoid punishment, which can increase fear of failure, test anxiety and at worst even cause them to drop out of school.
Article in Learning and Individual Differences by researchers from the education department at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev