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By: heidi

heidi — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:46:16 +0000

Yes! Just yesterday I was thinking, Come on! It’s house. You read it yesterday and the day before. Why can’t you remember house?? I then did say rather impatiently, “It’s house. Remember? House?” Later I pulled her aside and apologized for my impatient behavior and how ‘I’m working on it’. This is grade 1. How in the eff am I going to make it through eleven more years?

By: Stacy (the Random Cool Chick)

Stacy (the Random Cool Chick) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:39:51 +0000

Oh yeah, I’ve been there. What annoys me is the homework sent home that requires parental involvement – First Grade and Princess Nagger had to ‘build’ a 3D model house of our house…yeah, as IF a First Grader would be doing that. I had to do it. And I didn’t like being assigned homework.

By: Joanie M

Joanie M — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:55:56 +0000

I have been known to do that for my oldest kid (you know… the practice kid… the one you learn on), but by the time #3 came along, I had stopped. That kid (#3) was on her own to sink or swim. and she swims beautifully.

By: Jodie at Mummy Mayhem

Jodie at Mummy Mayhem — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:01:03 +0000

Oh, LOL! This was so bloody entertaining.

Could have been my life I was reading about here.

My problem is that when my 7yr old writes his “snapshot”, which is basically a recount of what he did on the weekend, I’m busy looking at it thinking, ‘he needs to be more descriptive. Why hasn’t he started a new paragraph here?’ I have to remind myself. He’s 7. S-E-V-E-N. *sigh*

By: blognut

blognut — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:40:20 +0000

I would love to take over and do the homework for my son because it would be over and done in a fraction of the time.

Now that I think about it, I could actually DO his homework and he’d be learning about fractions, right?

By: K a b l o o e y

K a b l o o e y — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:33:36 +0000

Watching my kid try to put a 12 piece puzzle together and totally NOT getting the concept once nearly made me pass out, I so wanted to help. Same this year when I watched her not get how to pedal her bike (with training wheels). She kept kind of rocking her feet back and forth. I couldn’t find the words to describe how to do it and thought I would spontaneously human combust. She’s in special ed and not very coordinated, and I am usually very patient, but, man. Tested the ZEN capacity of this mom in a serious way, and I failed. Big time. But she’d flip her top if she saw that I’d colored in her assignment.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:02:27 +0000

Help her out now because in a few more years you won’t even understand her homework. I dreamed of the days of coloring by the time the oldest got into 5th grade.

By: Gropius

Gropius — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:48:35 +0000

Oh Jessica, you have so much to be grateful for. She GIVES you her homework…the knowledge of it! That it EXISTS. We just got in another of our lovely “discussions” with a kid who continuously hides the fact that any homework exists. Even goes so far to tell us “the teacher is lying.” Oh help us.

By: tracey

tracey — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:23:48 +0000

First of all: homework in KINDERGARTEN is RIDICULOUS. When coloring is an assignment, something is WRONG. Coloring is supposed to be fun, nu?

(grabbing educators around their invisible necks and shaking them to their senses)

By: Erin@TheLocalsLoveIt

Erin@TheLocalsLoveIt — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:00:58 +0000

I’m having that problem now getting my kid to pull up and down his own pants when he goes to the potty. It’s much faster if I just do it myself.

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