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[quote=Anonymous]I get what you mean, OP.  My kids get out of school at 3:15 - they need a 1/2hr to have a snack and chill out - then if they are off to an activity by the time we get home it is 5:30 or later (combination of activities being all over the place and dealing with traffic from 4:30pm on in this area!).  When they were younger I liked them to eat by 6 so that there was time for bath and reading before bed.  That would leave very little time for HW.  But, I think where you try to squeeze it in is the window where you make dinner - have DC do her HW at the kitchen table as you or spouse prep and cook dinner - that is probably about 1/2 of time which 2nd grade HW should not take much more than.  Since your DD has ADHD I am sure that even 15 min of HW takes twice as long - I get it, I have a kid like that, too - but having the child right at the kitchen table while I'm making dinner helps keep her focused, and you just have to accept that sometimes dinner will be a little late. Also, some kids can go right from school to activity to HW to dinner to bed with no problem - my kids need "down time" - that means they are not the kind of people who can have 5 day/week of activities, either.[/quote]

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