Reply to How much afterschooling is too much?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "How much afterschooling is too much?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I found some of the responses a bit ridiculous. It's ok to work with your children outside of school. With huge public school class sizes, most children get very little individual attention. 15 minutes of math or reading at home a day is not considered child abuse, in fact I think it more like thoughtful parenting.

OP- if your children are doing well in math, then cut back on math and add reading in instead. For example- if your children were doing math for 15 minutes a day/4 days a week- then cut that down to only 2 days per week, and do reading 2 days per week. Or do math 2 days during the week, and do reading on the weekend.

I do make my children do math- 15 minutes 2 days per week, and reading aloud 15 minutes 2 days per week (in addition to the time my 2nd grader spends reading to himself.) Its allows me to help him with vocabulary works he may not know.

I also make my children practice music 15 minutes 3-4 days per week (I know it should be everyday, but sometimes we just don't get to it.)

They also play sports (one practice/one game per week.)

And even with all these activities they find LOTS of time to watch TV and play video games on the iPad, even during the week.

OP- I also won't worry about what other people label you as, it really irrelevant. No matter what you do as a parent, if you ask enough people, someone will tell you it is wrong. There is no absolute right way to parent, every child is different and every family situtaion is different. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics