I pulled my child from a daycare that sent home homework at 3. On Fridays they sent home actual worksheet packets that were not age appropriate. (I'm an educator and knew the worksheets were developed for 1st grade.) When I went in on Monday without the homework, they asked my son for it so he could get his star sticker. When I stated he had not done it, and would not be doing it in the future, they double downed and told me they could find an extra copy if he wanted to do it that night and bring it the next day for a sticker. We RAN from that daycare. We pay a lot more money a month to have our kids in a daycare where they spend a lot of time outside and it is worth every penny.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, this is homework for the parents, since it's only age-appropriate if the parent actually does 99% of it. Irritating.

+1. Our daycare/preschool started these projects very early too - just wait to you get to the 100th day of school project! Ours also started assigning homework (stupid worksheets) at 3.5-4 years old that wen straight in the trash because it is not age appropriate for kids that young to have homework.

Really? Can you post one article that says it’s not age appropriate or damaging to the child at that age? I find that to be far fetched. Sounds like you just don’t want to assist.

https://ascy.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Nomoreworksheetsflyer.pdf

https://old.npuc.org/downloads/education/ece/The%20Worksheet%20Dilemma.pdf

Preschool teacher here. I never assigned homework, but the argument for a family project is to encourage parent involvement in the child’s education. When parent involvement is high, or at least present—children are more likely to achieve.

There are no grades or penalties, you don’t have to do it, but it’s a nice thing for you to do with your child, even if you have to wait until the weekend to finish it since you’ll have more time. And yes, even if your child doesn’t understand the concept at first—a lot of what teachers do with children they have no clue what’s going on the first time—that’s why we expose them, to educate them.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently my daughter was supposed to do that last week, according to the handout I reviewed this morning. Oh well.

Today I was supposed to send in a family photo. Like, I'm supposed to go develop a picture at CVS for this? Hilarious. I just printed one on our B&W printer from my phone.

You don’t have an extra family photo laying around. What are you, vampires? If this simple request is that difficult for you now, you may want to consider home schooling your child through high school. It’s sad when I read petty gripes like this from other parents. Check yourself. Poor teachers.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, this is homework for the parents, since it's only age-appropriate if the parent actually does 99% of it. Irritating.

+1. Our daycare/preschool started these projects very early too - just wait to you get to the 100th day of school project! Ours also started assigning homework (stupid worksheets) at 3.5-4 years old that wen straight in the trash because it is not age appropriate for kids that young to have homework.

Really? Can you post one article that says it’s not age appropriate or damaging to the child at that age? I find that to be far fetched. Sounds like you just don’t want to assist.

Apparently my daughter was supposed to do that last week, according to the handout I reviewed this morning. Oh well.

Today I was supposed to send in a family photo. Like, I'm supposed to go develop a picture at CVS for this? Hilarious. I just printed one on our B&W printer from my phone.

Wow, OK, OP.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, this is homework for the parents, since it's only age-appropriate if the parent actually does 99% of it. Irritating.

+1. Our daycare/preschool started these projects very early too - just wait to you get to the 100th day of school project! Ours also started assigning homework (stupid worksheets) at 3.5-4 years old that wen straight in the trash because it is not age appropriate for kids that young to have homework.

Aw, I loved doing this. We drew, used stickers, etc. You will take a look at it 10 years from now and smile at the memory of what they loved back then.

And also, many people still get magazines lol. Ask your local buy nothing group or print something off the computer.

I was a Pre-K teacher for years and we completed this in class at the beginning of the school year, not as homework. Which meant the answers they dictated to us for the various questions were hysterical and the parents got a kick out of reading them. They also drew the pictures themselves as part of tablework, no magazines, etc. Parents were much more interested in having their child's artwork than a magazine cutout.

Anonymous wrote:I realize I am going to have a long road ahead of me but I am a little annoyed at our preschool for sending home an "About Me" project for our 3 year old to complete. Who even has magazines anymore?

We have 2 hours at night to do play, dinner, bath/books, bedtime and is this really age-appropriate or are the parents just expected to do it? How much stuff comes home? Tell me straight cuz I dont want my kid to be the only one without the project completed but damn, this feels like parent homework .

I am going to have to get over this arent I?

You should never have had children if this is so difficult for you.

Yes, this is homework for the parents, since it's only age-appropriate if the parent actually does 99% of it. Irritating.

Anonymous wrote:You're reading waaaay too much into it.

The All About Me or the Star if the Week -type stuff is something the 2 of you work together on in a fun way. It's not meant to be all ti.e consuming and perfectly manicured.
Abd there's no right or wrong way to do this.

Have your kid glue stock on a family picture, draw what looks to the family pet, glue on a noodle for favorite food, glue on the granola bar wrapper for favorite snack , scribble blue lines for favorite color....you get the idea.

It's really not that tedious Just work on it a little each night. Take 10 min here and there. Done.
I promise that you'll still have time for dinner, play and bath.

Its not fun when he doesnt understand the concept. I explained it to him and he was like okay thats cool now I am going to go play with my dinosaurs.

Id totally be okay with bring your favorite X from home but we cant do that with COVID anymore I guess.

We still ended up doing it but again this was provided on X day and expected back the next day.

You're reading waaaay too much into it.

The All About Me or the Star if the Week -type stuff is something the 2 of you work together on in a fun way. It's not meant to be all ti.e consuming and perfectly manicured.
Abd there's no right or wrong way to do this.

Have your kid glue stock on a family picture, draw what looks to the family pet, glue on a noodle for favorite food, glue on the granola bar wrapper for favorite snack , scribble blue lines for favorite color....you get the idea.

It's really not that tedious Just work on it a little each night. Take 10 min here and there. Done.
I promise that you'll still have time for dinner, play and bath.

I realize I am going to have a long road ahead of me but I am a little annoyed at our preschool for sending home an "About Me" project for our 3 year old to complete. Who even has magazines anymore?

We have 2 hours at night to do play, dinner, bath/books, bedtime and is this really age-appropriate or are the parents just expected to do it? How much stuff comes home? Tell me straight cuz I dont want my kid to be the only one without the project completed but damn, this feels like parent homework .

I am going to have to get over this arent I?