Anonymous wrote:I have not looked at my kids homework since sixth grade. I do look online at their grades but is is not even once a week. If they are missing work or or don't have an A or a B I discuss it with them. You need to teach him he can do it on his own.

That's great that your kid figured this out on the early side. Not all do.

Leave the kid alone! I remember being lectured by my parents also about using pencil for math. I hated pencils then, I hate pencils now. I do everything in black ink because I like the way it feels to write and it doesn't smear like pencil. If these are the big problems you have with a teen, you are pretty lucky!

Anonymous wrote:I have not looked at my kids homework since sixth grade. I do look online at their grades but is is not even once a week. If they are missing work or or don't have an A or a B I discuss it with them. You need to teach him he can do it on his own.

I haven't looked st my kids homework since she was 6 - 6th grade is pretty far up the chain too, you should have stopped years ago too.

Op ~ I remember this argument.
Math done in pen always and the only year an A in Math was possible became a B due to stubbornness and his inability to anticipate needing a pencil.

Always amazing how DCUM responders to posts are the perfect parents with all the right answers. It’s so easy to be a perfect parent with a perfect kid. I’ve got one like that and also a tough one, so I know both sides.