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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our kid also totally refuses and a worksheet that would be 10 minutes ends up taking an hour plus. It's brutal.

We are working with a child psychologist for anxiety and we asked her thoughts on it. She says homework in elementary should only be for the practice of getting used to doing homework and we shouldn't push it. She says to set a timer for 20 minutes for homework. Whatever is accomplished in that time is the homework we do. Just let the teacher know you're using that approach and they can see what is being accomplished in 20 minutes. Timer really helps my kid[/quote]

Same here, and thank you for the suggestion from your psychologist. That's a great idea. My second grader finds the math worksheets easy but tedious (they have to draw so, so many little dots...) and often she's just too tired after evening sports practice. Her first grade teacher used to send home advanced math homework for the kids that didn't need extra practice with the grade level material, but this year's teacher does not. I tried to suggest she does some advanced worksheets from a Singapore math workbook instead, and she insisted she had to do her homework from class. But then takes an hour to draw all of the little dots and finish what she could do mentally in five minutes. It's frustrating because DD is not one to push herself beyond grade level in math by doing extra work outside of class, but is clearly capable of doing more if she was given the instruction.

We have PT conferences in two weeks, and I'll talk to her teacher about it then. DD would need to hear from the teacher herself that she's allowed to do alternative math worksheets instead of homework, but TBD on what the teacher would think of that plan. [/quote]

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