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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my kids just had a project due that is directly in my area of expertise. I could have helped her knock it out of the park.

But I didn't help my kid other than to ask a few questions like "what's your main point?" and "how are you going to explain it?" Then I let her do it all herself. I suggested she re-read the whole thing for spelling and punctuation errors, but I didn't tell her what to change.

She turned it in as is. More than half of the projects in the class were obviously done by parents. How can kids learn if their parents do the work for them? My child got a decent grade. She would have gotten top grades with my help. But it's all HER work, not mine. As it should be.[/quote]

Did the teacher mark ever single thing that was incorrect and give comments on how to make it better?  If not, that is a good reason for parents to step in.   When my kids were young, they got great grades for mediocre work, so I stepped in to teach them what they should be striving for.  Before turning it in, they were motivated to work with me.  If I had waited until afterwards, they would not have been as willing to learn from me.  There’s a big difference between teaching and doing a kid’s work for them, so that’s important.  It took a lot more time to have to work with me, but they learned valuable stuff.   [/quote]

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