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[quote=Anonymous]I agree all kids are different and have different work habits/needs.  It sounds like the issue here is not homework so much as the large chunks of time DD is "disappearing" to her room.   I suggest adding a few chores around dinner - setting the table, helping make dinner one or two nights a week that would have her be with you.

Interesting note, my DD  who is a junior will also disappear to her room saying she has "homework", but admits to wasting a lot of time in her room and getting distracted by her phone, books she wants to read and/or her "bed"(napping).  When she really has a deadline she'll bring her work downstairs and say she won't go back to her room until she finishes, because the kitchen/dining room is LESS distracting.... even thought the dog, her sister and I are usually there.

She did homework in a common room until HS,  was only allowed to bring her laptop into her room the end of last year and still puts her phone outside her room every night by 10:00.  Gradually more of the responsibility is on her to figure out how/where she can be most efficient.  We have tried to instill good habits with the modeling of doing homework in a chair  at a desk/table (not reclined in bed) and so forth.  Seems like it has worked in a sense, when it's crunch time she comes back to it.[/quote]

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