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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your child is resistant because your child is a real live child and not a pretend child.

Kinder is too young for hw.  The day is long enough.  You have a lot of years ahead of you fighting this fight.

I would use a timer set to 20 minutes.  Then that is all that gets done.  Save the fight for when age-appropriate.

Ignore what I said if this is hw to remedy a skill or developmental deficit.
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I agree HW in kindergarten is ridiculous. But, this school assigns homework.

What message does it send to your kid when you basically say, "let's ignore the homework for now, maybe we'll care about it more in the future, but for now your teacher can spit in a bucket"?  I wouldn't want to have to explain to this kid, next year, why you suddenly care about homework and the teacher. [/quote]

I didn't say ignore, I said 20 minutes. It is not easy to get a kid to sit and focus.  Timer helps. As does having to say to your teacher that you worked on it for a long time but didn't finish.  We did an hour some nights in first since my son was struggling with reading and all the hw was about reading.  At least 30 minutes of the hour was just learning to sit and do it.  I would not have done an hour if there weren't real issues going on with the reading.  [/quote]

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