If your household is plagued by homework battles, rest assured, you’re not alone. You may feel like the only way homework gets done is through nagging. Or perhaps the levels of frustration, for both you and your child, are through the roof as you work...
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What’s Up with This New-Fangled Math?
You’re trying hard to help your child with his math homework but all you hear is, “You’re doing it wrong!” Up until this point, your math skills had served you quite well in life. Now, all the sudden, your child’s second grade math questions have got...
Back to School Preps to Maintain Your Sanity
It’s that time of year that has moms and dads doing a happy dance while kids are singing the blues. You know what we’re talking about. It’s back to school time baby! While you may be ready to pack that lunch and wave your kids off to the bus stop, we...
The Great Homework Debate - An Educator’s Perspective
In my experience, for every parent that expresses that he/she hates homework, there is another parent requesting that the teacher sends some home. There’s also a small parent group of “in betweeners” who want homework some of the time, but not all of the time. This...
No Homework?
Kids around the country, mine included, will begin the new school year within one month. While that brings freshly sharpened pencils and new book bags, it also means the return of an unpopular “friend”… homework. After spending 6+ hours at school,...