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[quote=Anonymous]Firm routines are key. She'll whine and fuss about it at first, but most kids will ease up on that once the routine becomes ingrained. For a routine, I wouldn't give screen time before homework, make it a reward for when homework is done. There's so much research showing that it's so much harder for kids (and adults) to break away from screens than other activities, so by letting her go right to the screens you're setting up both of you for a tougher battle. After school, she has 45 minutes to play inside or out and have a snack, at which point she sits down and does homework. Keep homework to a reasonable time for her age (probably around ten minutes, not including reading), and when she's done you both sit down and review the homework together to make sure she's done it properly (which doesn't mean everything has to be correct, just that she needs to have followed the instructions, things are written legibly, etc.). Once she's make any needed fixes, she's done. After enough times of having to sit through the review and redo, she'll probably start doing her homework more neatly/properly because she'll get that there's no actual time saved by rushing through it.[/quote]

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