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[quote=Anonymous]Two hours is too long, but the writing needs help. Why? Because teaching good habits when they are young is important! Also, there may be a minor fine motor or vision issue. DS was like yours, but he received OT. His writing was big and most of it was about 1/4 below the line. I started putting an envelope or very thin notebook just below the line to help him gauge where the line is. He said it helped. There is also paper that you can ask the school for or buy yourself that has a shaded or raised lowed portion to help kids gauge where their letters are on the line. I also went old school when it came to constructing sentences. Instead of the stuff that they are teaching now, I used the 5-Ws to help my son write better sentences. Breaking it down step-by-step and then building the sentence back up to come up with logical and complete sentences.

I know its hard. We used to have almost nightly battles with homework at that age, until I realized that we both needed a break. If things were getting too stressing and starting to take too long (homework at this age shouldn't take more than 10-15 mins or so), then we both took a break. He got to go play and I did something else. Stress free! 10-15 mins later we would re-group and make a lot more progress than just trying to plow through it. This helped immensely. He's 9 now and there is no fight to do homework. He comes home and starts it right away with no problem.[/quote]

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