Be honest, how much are you helping with homework/projects?

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Anonymous wrote:I don't help my 12 yr old unless she asks. She asks me to quiz her to study for tests sometimes. Earlier this year she had a week with TONS of homework and when I looked at it, a lot was busy work. I did a big chunk of that for her since she already knew it.

This is why so many teachers have stopped having kids do projects at home, because they know parents like you do it for them. What do you think you are teaching your child here? Will you also be the mom that types up her paper for her when she is in college because she's so stressed?

I'm teaching her that after she's done homework for five hours, enough is enough and I will help when the workload is ridiculous. When the teacher is punishing the entire class for three kids bad behavior by giving everyone two hours of busy work on TOP of their regular homework, yes I will call bullshit. In college she will type her own papers. But she's not in college now, just sixth grade. In college you don't get busy work.

You've taught your DD that she doesn't have to respect the teacher and it's ok to cheat when *you* feel it's warranted. Also, in college, a Professor can assign busy work. I think you will be that parent that types up your college-aged DD's paper; call the potential employer to negotiate salary, etc.. It's a slippery slope.

If your DD is truly spending 5 hrs a day on HW, then she is either not understanding the material or she's probably getting side-tracked while doing HW (my DC does this, too. DC can take 2 hrs doing a HW assignment that DC could easily do in 30min). Either way, you doing your DD's HW is called CHEATING!

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I always check my 3rd and 2nd graders' homework (usually a math WS and/or a language arts WS) for correctness. The teachers do not check the answers at all... they only check to see if the students completed it. I want to make sure that my that my kids are understanding the assignments and material. If they get something wrong, I just say "look at number 5 again."