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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tread carefully.  You need to teach your child work habits.  If he's coming in with unfinished HW and everyone isn't, he's going to stand out and internalize that.

The suggestions about setting a timer and prioritizing work are good starters.

By the time he's in older elementary, he could develop a case of learned helplessness.  By the time they get to middle school, HW is not busy work and kids need to do it to keep up with the class.

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As a teacher, I totally support efforts to limit homework, especially for kids who find the classroom extra challenging.

However, I also think one needs to be careful about letting kid's resistance to HW be the driver.  By that I mean situations where a kid knows that they'll need to work for 20 minutes, rather than to completion, and that if they stall for those 20 minutes work will disappear.

I'd handle this by looking through the HW, talking to your kid about priorities, and then deciding, with their input, on what you think is a reasonable quantity.  Then make your kid stick with it through completion.  That is, I wouldn't do "20 minutes and then you're done", I'd say "we're just going to do the first 5, I'll draw a line at the place we're going to stop", and then if that takes 10 minutes you can celebrate how efficient your kid was and set a goal of 7 the next day, or if it takes 30 minutes you can process why it took longer than expected.

I think there's a place for saying "I underestimated this assignment, I'm going to make a change" but I also think that kids need the experience of working until completion, even if the quantity they're completing is drastically different. [/quote]

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