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Anonymous wrote:I totally look down on the parents on here who are bitching about some homework in the elementary years. If you don't want to help your kid or check it over, so be it. If you want to bitch about it, though, you're clearly passing that attitude (overtly or covertly) to your kids. What a shame.

Go ahead and look down on me. My kid will be your kid's boss some day, because your child will be so busy internalizing lessons about boredom, paperwork, and compliance with authority that he will not learn the skills of creativity, executive function, and expression that are essential for success in today's economy.

We shall see, won't we? That's quite some statement, about which you have no knowledge. I'm looking down on parents who pass the attitude onto their kids (about homework the parents feel is stupid).

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Anonymous wrote:I totally look down on the parents on here who are bitching about some homework in the elementary years. If you don't want to help your kid or check it over, so be it. If you want to bitch about it, though, you're clearly passing that attitude (overtly or covertly) to your kids. What a shame.

Go ahead and look down on me. My kid will be your kid's boss some day, because your child will be so busy internalizing lessons about boredom, paperwork, and compliance with authority that he will not learn the skills of creativity, executive function, and expression that are essential for success in today's economy.

Anonymous wrote:I totally look down on the parents on here who are bitching about some homework in the elementary years. If you don't want to help your kid or check it over, so be it. If you want to bitch about it, though, you're clearly passing that attitude (overtly or covertly) to your kids. What a shame.

Anonymous wrote:I totally do. Last year we were planning a trip to Yosemite to spend 5 nights camping and hiking. DS's teacher assigned a big project on animal's habitats and one of the mothers was freaking out about how it would take up all of spring break. I told the teacher I was not spending a week in the library supervising my son researching that shit because we were busy GOING to an actual place where he could research it live and SEE animals in their natural habitats. She started babbling about the importance of learning to research and I told her that he'd already proven his ability to do that in the library setting with the other SIX research projects she'd given the third grade class earlier in the year that he'd gotten A's on.

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Anonymous wrote:I totally look down on the parents on here who are bitching about some homework in the elementary years. If you don't want to help your kid or check it over, so be it. If you want to bitch about it, though, you're clearly passing that attitude (overtly or covertly) to your kids. What a shame.

I'm not bitching about it, I just don't require my kid to do it. But, since I'm just horrified that you (someone whose opinion I value so highly) look down upon me, I'll immediately change my ways! I do so want to earn your respect!

Rather than take your precious time to respond to posts on this site, why not go and help your kids? Your attitude on homework is directly beig passed on to your kids. Maybe if you did something constructive with them, that will pass to them too. Signed - a working, professional mother, with no childcare, who does her kids' homework with them daily.

Aren't you just special. Where would you like your blue ribbon delivered?

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Second, in terms of what and how much homework there is, in addition to the daily worksheets (which, as I've said, are done in aftercare) and reading (which I fully support and always find time to do), there is: making and using spelling word flash cards; making and using math flash cards; doing music homework on-line; doing math homework on-line; doing almost-daily writing assignments; finding and reading specific books at home; and doing monthly family projects, such as making diaramas, creating a piece of art regarding math or a holiday, making a book, etc.

I really would like to have a more constructive dialog about how to handle this overload. Between working full-time, doing the cooking, cleaning, laundry and other house stuff, and trying to do some fun family activities on weekends, I really don't have time to do all this, and my kids are too young to take it on themselves. Plus, one of them has started to really dislike school because it is just too much.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I totally look down on the parents on here who are bitching about some homework in the elementary years. If you don't want to help your kid or check it over, so be it. If you want to bitch about it, though, you're clearly passing that attitude (overtly or covertly) to your kids. What a shame.

I'm not bitching about it, I just don't require my kid to do it. But, since I'm just horrified that you (someone whose opinion I value so highly) look down upon me, I'll immediately change my ways! I do so want to earn your respect!

Rather than take your precious time to respond to posts on this site, why not go and help your kids? Your attitude on homework is directly beig passed on to your kids. Maybe if you did something constructive with them, that will pass to them too. Signed - a working, professional mother, with no childcare, who does her kids' homework with them daily.

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Anonymous wrote:"Wasting time" by giving homework...load of crap. I'm sure we could take a peek at your week and find a ton of things your kids do that waste time that are less constructive than homework.

Young kids don't do anything that "wastes" time. They are little sponges who suck up informatiion and learn from everything they do. We play, run, or swim, and always read when I get home from work. And we cook dinner together most nights. Cooking is a great way to teach math and science. And baseball starts soon. Young kids learn so much more through play than from worksheets. Plus, they had plenty of time to learn in school.

Sorry I totally disagree. The parents who allow a lot of electronic time is allowing a child to waste time. Any "learning" (puhlease - I hate when people talk about educational apps) is passive which is not a good way to learn/reinforce long term). So yes, kids watching t.v., playing video games, etc. are wasting time. Regardless, a few worksheets here and there are not going to kill them. (They might as well learn young that when responsibility is doled out - homework - it has to be done. I certainly hope you aren't teaching them that they will learn so much more with you doing fun things than stinky ole' worksheets.

Anonymous wrote:OP here. First of all, I haven't been posting, so ya'll have been busy casting aspersions at others, FWIW. (Not that I expected anything different on good old DCUMs, lol.)

Second, in terms of what and how much homework there is, in addition to the daily worksheets (which, as I've said, are done in aftercare) and reading (which I fully support and always find time to do), there is: making and using spelling word flash cards; making and using math flash cards; doing music homework on-line; doing math homework on-line; doing almost-daily writing assignments; finding and reading specific books at home; and doing monthly family projects, such as making diaramas, creating a piece of art regarding math or a holiday, making a book, etc.

I really would like to have a more constructive dialog about how to handle this overload. Between working full-time, doing the cooking, cleaning, laundry and other house stuff, and trying to do some fun family activities on weekends, I really don't have time to do all this, and my kids are too young to take it on themselves. Plus, one of them has started to really dislike school because it is just too much.

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Anonymous wrote:"Wasting time" by giving homework...load of crap. I'm sure we could take a peek at your week and find a ton of things your kids do that waste time that are less constructive than homework.

Young kids don't do anything that "wastes" time. They are little sponges who suck up informatiion and learn from everything they do. We play, run, or swim, and always read when I get home from work. And we cook dinner together most nights. Cooking is a great way to teach math and science. And baseball starts soon. Young kids learn so much more through play than from worksheets. Plus, they had plenty of time to learn in school.

Anonymous wrote:"Wasting time" by giving homework...load of crap. I'm sure we could take a peek at your week and find a ton of things your kids do that waste time that are less constructive than homework.