Mommy’s homework
Dec 1st, 2008 by Kim
Why is it that when children go to school the parents generally have more homework then the kids have?? There is always forms to fill out and when the kids have projects, usually the parent has to do a lot of it with them. My daughter’s grade 5 class isn’t too bad, but the work that I end up doing for my son’s grade 3 class is getting to be a bit much. Just last week I needed to fill out a parent survey, find information off the Internet on spider glue traps and bake two dozen cookies to take to a bake sale. Normally I don’t mind doing my part in helping out the classes, but it seems lately I’m doing things all the time. I graduated from high school over 20 years ago and I honestly thought my world in the homework world was over. Boy was I wrong!
I know what you mean. I think teachers should make homework and projects easy enough that the kids could do it without parents help. I remember when we had to do science projects. Some of them were so elaborate, I knew the kids didn’t do them. I always thought it very unfair that parents “helped” their kids with homework. It seemed homework should be the kids’ responsibility. It seemed like many parents didn’t know how to help without doing it for them.
I remember my science project years ago back in my country. There was always a student who had a commercial looking project and it was so obvious that this child was helped by his parents.
I hear ya! We spent the entire weekend cutting pictures from magazines to make this stupid, huge collage for my daughter’s reading class. Not exactly what I wanted to spend my weekend doing.
I don’t have any school-age children myself, but I have a friend who is continually calling me for help that she needs in doing her son’s homework. And some of the projects they have to do are unbelievably complicated. How the teachers can expect a youngster to do these by themselves is beyond me! Maybe it’s just their way of getting even for sending the little devils to their classes!!!
I think it is really a stupid thing of doing homework by the parents. The collage, science mini-project, Pythogras theorem demo, etc really sucks me. I think the syllabus for the classes need to be refined in such a way that no parents should help the children especially in school project.