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One of the most popular journal posts on CafeMom this week is from a teacher, Amileegirl. She offers some straight-forward advice to parents who don't think the school's rules should apply to their child. I love it. Here are some highlights:
"If you do your child's homework for them, they don't get the benefit of practice and likely miss important lessons. You already graduated, so put down the worksheet."
"A 58 is an F. It means that your child is either not ready to move on or didn't do their work. Harassing the principal and teacher to "find some make up work so that a 60 can be achieved" is not only undermining teacher authority, but it diminishes the value of the grade. Then your child goes to college and expects the same treatment and are sorely disappointed when they find out that that's not how it works."
"The healthy snack, no sugar rule isn't implemented to encroach upon your unique parenting style. It isn't personal. It is implemented to reduce the known, and marked behavioral problems associated with excess sugar. Think of it like not bringing a can of soda into the computer lab for the time you are there. No one is saying, never drink soda, just don't drink it while here."
Read the rest on Amileegirl's journal post, "Parents Who Undermine Teachers--You Aren't Helping."
Do you think this advice is helpful?
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Comments (5)
Great reality check for parents. I know how tempting the "help with homework" thing can be. Being a teacher, my husband has vowed we will only assist on a very limited basis.
My kids hate me because I refuse to "help" them with their homework. I mean I actually do help them. For my 1st and 2nd grader we go over the sheets. I have my 2nd grader attempt to read the instructions which he hates because he is a poor reader. For my 1st grader I just read the directions to her (she can't read yet). Then we go over the sheet and I let them tell me what they are supposed to do and what goes where, etc.
Then I tell them to go do it. I'm hear if they gets stuck and I go over it when they are done. My son (the 2nd grader) really hates it because I make him actually do the work instead of reading it all for him and giving him the answers.
My 4th grader doesn't/rarely needs actual help (as in can't figure out what to do on her work) but she needs lots of prodding to get her homework done. It's been taking her 5+ hours to do her homework every night and it's taking a toll on her and me. Tonight I made her go to bed without finishing it. She needed a shower and hadn't eaten dinner. She hasn't played, watched TV, read, practiced her clarinet or done anything but homework all week. I wrote a note to the teacher and don't care what she says. It was too much (21 pages in math with 3 days to do it plus all the other homework including a page of math homework yesterday).
Great advice for parents.
Very good advice.
I don't help my 2nd grader unless she needs in which case she will ask for my help. I do check it and if she gets something wrong I will point out to her if she double checked her work if she tells me she did I then let her know she missed something. She tends to get defensive when I try to help her out it's my I do not offer my help to begin with. Now I have a kindergarten son so I do go over the work with him to help him, but he does it on his own. He's very meticulous so I can't correct things for him as he prefers to do it himself. So far it's gone good I mean it's still jsut the beginning of the month so far I have yet a problem...lol I'll get back in a month or too on how that's working.
I think it can be helpful to some but others who would benefit will just ignore