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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thanks for the helpful responses. To answer a question, basically we don't have her do homework on Fridays or weekends. As mentioned, she dislikes homework anyway so it's a lot of trauma to spoil these days. Then there are two activities on Monday, which end late, so no go. There is another activity one night and a tutor the next. That leaves one night.

She does learn from the tutor but we have decided that it's a waste to have her do homework with her instead of focusing on the missing skills that she needs.

Being so young, even if there were no activities, she should be able to play in the yard at night and have dinner, and that would leave about enough time to get a bath and then to bed on time. We have gotten a couple of mega-packs of homework too. Things that take a very long time. It just seems wrong to have to cancel things just to do homework, but obviously something is out of kilter. I can say I disagree with the quantity of homework, but so what. [/quote]

OP, you've given your schedule, now can you give us an idea of how much time you're spending on homework each of the nights?  Is the issue that you need more time over the whole week?  Or that your DD is going too slowly because she's tired on activity nights?  Or that you need to choose different days to do the homework (like PP who suggested weekends)?

Absent more info, my only suggestion is that if DD has ADHD, routine is important and it could be more helpful to do more short homework sessions than fewer longer ones.  Building the study skills won't go as well if you skip multiple days at a time because of activities and/or weekends.

I agree with your instinct to protect backyard play.[/quote]

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