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After TWO HOURS of encouraging :) my third grade grandson to do his homework, I have very little hair left. I believe that there is a smidgen left on the top of my head and maybe a little behind my ears. What on earth is happening here? Let's see. Vocabulary
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Yesterday was a B day. That means that I (B) watch my grandsons while my daughter is at work. After school, we played outside for about an hour. Then, of course it's pulling teeth (homework) time. Nightly, parents struggle with the art of getting kids
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Students who are doing well in school usually have a support team at home. Instead of worrying about zeroes and grades below fifty and how these grades should not be recorded in the gradebook, parents should get their kids to value school work enough
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A recent survey makes it seem that most parents, teachers, and students are on board for homework and don't feel overwhelmed. More than 1,000 teachers, 501 parents, and 2,101 K-12 students participated in the online survey. Most of the time I found that
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How much help should parents give their children with homework? Should homework be the focus of every evening after school? Over the Thanksgiving break I asked a young mom visiting from Illinois how things were going with her kids. She laughed and said
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Just when I think I've read everything, I see an article about parents being assigned homework. "No way," I think to myself. A lot of the parents seem happy to do the work and feel that it is only fair since the teacher is giving so much of himself to
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I once had a student turn in a beautifully written composition that I knew was not his work. When I talked to his mother, she told me, "Of course, I did it. You know he can't write." Parents sometimes feel that they have to help out with projects because
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I hear a lot of jokes about teenagers and their work capabilities. People sometimes think of them as inept and lazy. Maybe there is more to the story. Most high school teachers realize that some of their students are burning the midnight oil and that
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In My Teenagers' Homework Ate Their Free Time , an article written by Jay Matthews of the Washington Post, a mother wishes her children actually had time to watch TV. In responding to a question about homework vs. TV, she wrote: Although homework can
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My house is covered with pinto beans. They are on the stairs and hidden in the furniture. Last night we were watching our two grandsons and got involved in a kindergarten homework project. I was excited because it looked like great fun to me. Grandson
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