Moms of school age kids...homework question?

ceetee

How do you manage your kids HW?  Do you sit with them, ride them to get it done etc? Do you let it go in with mistakes or do you correct it at home?

i remind him he has it, we pretty much have set HW time. I don't sit with him or help him, except for helping him understand the directions if he has a question and I let him go in with the mistakes he makes because I figure that is the only way for the teacher to get real feedback. He gets HW packet on Tuesday to be turned in the following Monday, so there is a time management element he is dealing with. the past week or so he has tended to procrastinate and I think I am going to let him go in with unfinished HW on Monday, if he does not have it completed by 7 pm sunday. I really don't want to get in the habit of riding him. he gets a suggested schedule with his HW, so he does have structure. and I do remind him every day.

kellyann1972

pretty much what you do but Ryan doesnt get alot of "packets" but more 2/3 work sheets and a reading assignment.

I dont know I think the time management part of it might be hard for Ryan to grasp. When it has happened I say you have to do two pages a night so I dont let him figure it out himself.

But in terms of dealing with the consequences... I let Ryan go without his library books, his books etc, he got a bad report for it last marking period but hey his responsibility. Same with packing up assigments, not my homework to remember.

The only time I get super structured is when we have HW for both kids and 2 activities for both which means sit the hell down at the kitchen table and I am setting a timer for my own sanity :-) 

 

njmom2zach

Zach is in second grade.  He gets homework nightly.  If he has an evening activity, he does his homework soon after we get home from the bus and he has a snack.  Sometimes I set a timer for him.  I don't really help him with his homework, but I will answer questions for him.  He usually understands everything and gets most of it correct the first time around.  I do not correct errors, but I will encourage him to elaborate when he does his reading questions.  He's gotten much better about doing that on his own lately.

 

Eliza is in Kindergarten and she gets a reading booklet at the beginning of the week with activities for the week.  I help her do it because she is just learning to read.  When Zach was in Kindergarten he was reading well, so he did his work on his own.  Kindergarten math homework includes mostly family activites, so we do it together. 

I don't think that it is ever too early to teach them about time management and the consequences of procrastination! 

AmyRob04

I let him have some downtime after school and then we do homework. It's usually one sheet, 2-3 times each week. Honestly,I have no issue sending him to school without it being done. I tell him to do it, he knows I'll help him, but at the end of the day, it's his responsibility to get it done.

HarrietNJMommy

I don't sit with B. I am in the kitchen when she does her HW though. If she needs help, then I help. I do correct her but it's not that often that she makes mistakes (read: she is NOT a genius, the HW is just a continuation of what they've done in class and she remembers a lot. She really has a great memory). I asked my friend this the other day (when to stop helping her correct the work), and in our school it depends on the teacher. Some teachers want you to help correct, some don't. I know that B's teacher knows her capabilities and what she has trouble with.

I do have trouble with her doing her Greek HW.......ugh - that's a thorn in my side. But that's a second language and so she's not "as" interested because she has to work so much harder. We set aside time for that over the weekend and I really do have to sit with her. 

Kristen81603

Kieran gets a sheet of homework pretty much every night but Fridays, and then he has to do his reading- 

He usually does it as I am getting dinner together- and I check it over, if I see mistakes I ask him to look it over again, if he catches them fine, if not fine. he really doesn't give me a hard time yet- Only time he gets all grumpy is if I make him read the directions, cause he says he knows how to do it already-  

JenG-SLP

I sit with Allison for some of the homework, and some of it I'll be cooking or cleaning up, but popping over from time to time to see how she is doing.  I always go over the directions with her first.  I tell her to check her work, and then I check for mistakes as well.   I will have her correct the mistakes if I find any.  At this age, I think finding errors, understanding why it's incorrect, and then correcting the error is very important.

ceetee

HarrietNJMommy:

I don't sit with B. I am in the kitchen when she does her HW though. If she needs help, then I help. I do correct her but it's not that often that she makes mistakes (read: she is NOT a genius, the HW is just a continuation of what they've done in class and she remembers a lot. She really has a great memory). I asked my friend this the other day (when to stop helping her correct the work), and in our school it depends on the teacher. Some teachers want you to help correct, some don't. I know that B's teacher knows her capabilities and what she has trouble with.

I do have trouble with her doing her Greek HW.......ugh - that's a thorn in my side. But that's a second language and so she's not "as" interested because she has to work so much harder. We set aside time for that over the weekend and I really do have to sit with her. 

 

LOL Harriet. It makes me laugh ( and cry) that you have to qualify the remark about her not making mistakes. why do we have to qualify the good things in life lol? 

laurenpetro

grace gets a 4 section HW packet every monday that has to be turned in on friday.  she knows she has to do 1 section a night, no exceptions.  she can either do it at aftercare or at home but won't get a snack if she does it at home. 

she also gets 1-2 sheets a night of math HW.  she does this at aftercare.

we go through everything and mark off what she got wrong.  then we go over anything she didn't understand and she corrects it.  at this point we do it with her if she needs it.

ladyredlight

Corey's a little older so he has a lot more homework.  Mondays are his heaviest night usually and of course he has practice. He does a half hour of homework, eats, we go to practice and then he usually has about an hours worth of homework left after.

No exceptions though - every day - we come home and he starts his homework.  Because of his schedule he knows that no matter what homework gets start immediately after school. 

I do check it over and if I find mistakes I hand it back to him and tell him there is a mistake and he has to find it.

If he struggles with something I try and help him, but I try not let him get himself worked up over it.  He gets very frustrated if he doesn't understand something and thats when I tell him to put it aside and come back to it.

HarrietNJMommy

ceetee:

HarrietNJMommy:

I don't sit with B. I am in the kitchen when she does her HW though. If she needs help, then I help. I do correct her but it's not that often that she makes mistakes (read: she is NOT a genius, the HW is just a continuation of what they've done in class and she remembers a lot. She really has a great memory). I asked my friend this the other day (when to stop helping her correct the work), and in our school it depends on the teacher. Some teachers want you to help correct, some don't. I know that B's teacher knows her capabilities and what she has trouble with.

I do have trouble with her doing her Greek HW.......ugh - that's a thorn in my side. But that's a second language and so she's not "as" interested because she has to work so much harder. We set aside time for that over the weekend and I really do have to sit with her. 

 

LOL Harriet. It makes me laugh ( and cry) that you have to qualify the remark about her not making mistakes. why do we have to qualify the good things in life lol? 

Me too! I know you understood what I was saying without the qualification........

Shoegal23

E only gets a small amount of HW 3 nights a week. I have her do it as soon as she comes home from school on Thursdays and on Tues and Thurs we do it after Gymnastics and Dance. I sit with her at the counter. I give her the instructions and then go over it when she's done to fix any mistakes. She's 5. 

ceetee

thanks all!

and harriet..if she is or was a genius...I'd be happy to hear it! 

CLord

Aidan is in K.  We usually do HW after dinner when we're settled down.  He gets a packet for the week, but we try to get done as much as we can in a night.  It's honestly fast work for him and takes about 20 minutes tops.  One of us does sit with him-  I usually help him with directions and go to work on my laptop while he does the work.

 If he has questions about how to spell a word, I help him sound it out, but I don't spell anything for him.  If he's working too quickly and his penmanship is sloppy, I make him redo it.  That's about it.  If he does spell a word wrong, I don't correct.

HarrietNJMommy

ceetee:

thanks all!

and harriet..if she is or was a genius...I'd be happy to hear it! 

I wouldn't. That's a lot of work and a lot of pressure on a kid. I can tell you I'm not cut out to be a "genius kid's" mom........ 

nothingbuthappy

My 1st grader gets 1-2 sheets of math each night, 1-2 sheets of language/English each night, 1-2 readers each week and a spelling list each week.  She does her homework at the kitchen table as I cook and I help her if she needs help, but for the most part she goes it alone.  I do review her work with her once she's done because I want to know what she's working on and how she did.  And I do have her re-do her incorrect work.  Her teacher knows what her work habits are and how she does on a day to day basis in reading, English and math...I think it's impt for me to reinforce the school work at home as well.  I don't correct it for her, but if I see something incorrect I point it out, ask how she got that answer/came to that conclusion.  She knows this means her answer was incorrect and she'll re-do it on her own at that point.  Her teacher is great, but definitely a stickler for wanting everything handed in correctly -- she's also a big believer in the parent participating in the teaching process with that type of follow-through at home.  My daughter has had work sent back home in the past with "fix and return" written on it or "stay within the lines - rewrite and return" so it makes sense to just re-do it before sending it in, otherwise we wind up with twice as much homework the following night and it seems like we already have more than the avg reading through the above replies.