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[quote=Anonymous]I’d go ape if I had to do worksheets with my kids. I didn’t like them as a kid, and I don’t like them now. 
I prefer to teach them things based on what we’re doing or talking about, my first grader got stuck on a lesson about George Washington so I played her a couple of the songs from Hamilton.. that got her sorted out. 
For telling time, I set the ipad to unlock at a certain time and within two days, she could tell time, I just needed the right motivation. I remember telling my kid’s teacher, “believe me, these kids know how to tell time, they just don’t care about the lessoon which has nothing to do with you as a teacher”. I didn’t want the teacher to feel bad, she is a  nice lady, I could see though that she was worried about what the kids were picking up.

My husband is great with teaching reading concepts, I was the one that figured out how to motivate her.

Nobody cares about your mentoring and teaching experience.  As I told my husband “I’m a mother, not a teacher, they are very different skill sets.. I can say things to my kids the classroom teacher can’t.  I know what interests my kids in a way the classroom teacher can’t and doesn’t”.

If you want someone to do worksheets, hire that person or do it yourself. 
Many conversations may be going on during worksheet time.

I remember my first grader having a real tough time spelling the word art. One day I showed her how if you add a letter you can change the word, so bart is the transit system in San Fran Sisco, cart is the thing at the grocery store, dart is something you throw at someone you don’t like.. and then we got to f and I told her, just remember art is a fart without the f.  Not very mature, but she knows how to spell art now and we laughed about it. 
In a professional setting, you have hard metrics that have to be met. It doesn’t work that way with parenting.  [/quote]

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