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[quote=Anonymous]Wow. Some of you are really smug. I am a firm believer in "just sit down and get it done" the kid I was given just simply had enough after a long day and has fine motors issues. A worksheet that would have taken five year old me about a minute was a thirty-minute session full of tears and shouting and "I hate you"s. He told me he was terrible at school, was stupid, and would get hysterical in the morning and didn't want to get in the car. So I finally told the teacher that my child was happily reading half an hour a night, would not be filling out a reading journal (I was not going to suck the joy out of the one academic thing my child enjoyed doing) and would do worksheets on weekends only. I also told her to stop sending home a behavior chart each day that only he had.

I didn't get any pushback. It was ludicrous the amount of paperwork being sent home for five year olds. It took a couple of years for him to be ready to do any productive homework at home that I wasn't standing over him checking every damn line of it and pointing out that it was all wrong.

Every kid s different, no matter how much you want your kid to fit the vision in your head of what a child should be and do. [/quote]

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