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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mom of two older kids with ADHD (and a few other things going on). I took a different approach. I gave my kids the responsibility for their work. Rule was that it had to be done. But time, place, and supplies were at their discretion. For big projects, we developed a schedule of what had to be done every day.

Each day I ask my kids to list their responsibilities and then ask them for their plan as to how they will get everything done. So long as the plan doesn't include starting something at bedtime I agree to it. I let them fail so they could learn how to make better plans. But I didn't cut homework.

Now that we are in MS and HS, I am very glad I taught them to manage it instead of eliminating it (which I could have done because we did have a homework reduction in their IEPs). Things only get worse and harder when you have a special needs child so you have to start young with helping them develop the skills to manage life and at your daughter' sage, managing lifenonlyni gloves self care, chores and homework. It gets so much more complicated. I can't tell you how many moms of special needs kids tell me they wish they had worked on independence when their kids were in ES. [/quote]

Thank you PP. I am a NP and mom of a rising first grader. So far we have had little homework but I am reading this as I know it is coming as my kid gets older. I like your approach but have a question. You said that your rule is that homework must be done, but you also said you let your kids fail to learn to develop better plans. What does that mean? Let's say that your kid follows his or her plan  but does not get homework done before bedtime. What do you do then? Get the kid to bed on time, or have him/her stay up late finishing it? How would you handle this if you had extremely limited time at home after pickup and before bedtime? TIA. 
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PP here. If they don't get done by bedtime, they stay up until it's done. I consider that a fail and then I work with them the next night to make a better plan. If they decided to do homework in the morning and didn't get it finished, they would have to finish the next night along with their homework for that day. In all my years as a mom, there have been few fails and they learned to plan better by those fails. I will say though that just this year in 7 th grade we had an epic one where my son was up until after 2 am. Still, while its painful to lose sleep it got him back on track in terms of his time management and planning. If

It's hard when they are really busy. My kids are competitive gymnasts so they have about 15 hours a week of practice so they really have to have good time management skills. But that level of activity started after I had put them in charge of their schedules. So they already had good skills to manage it.  And staying up late isn't a good option because being overtired combined with the impulsiveness of ADHD is a dangerous combination for a gymnast.  Their options are to get it done or to reduce their activity schedule. They have always gotten it done. [/quote]
You felt the problem was your son and not the teacher that assigned enough homework to keep your son up until 2 AM. Unless you started at midnight, this is an education failure. I would have had my son in bed and a note to the teacher.[/quote]

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