Someone needs to come save the kid

Mysterious_wife

Homework is going to be the death of us. We have been at each other's throats (not really. I am being a bit dramatic)  She refuses to do homework. She argues with me. H comes in and she does exactly what he wants!  I am over it. First grade shouldn't be this damn hard...for the parents. BTW I have to look up how to do her math assignments sometimes. I do not remember this crap. 

Today's assignment is easy peasy. She has argued with me for the last 10 min that she does not have paper! Paper folks!  I am a craft snob. There is colored paper, thick paper, shitty paper, glitter paper, paper with designs, note book paper, spiralbooks of  paper, cotton paper, linen paper, and a million other types of paper in my mother effing craft room. She has no issue sneaking in and grabbing it to make crap out of it. The teen years are going to be hell. She has paper in her craft space. IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE THIS DAMN DIFFICULT.  If I start drinking now, maybe H will be home in time to cook. 

Mysterious_wife

Good point. Maybe I should take shots for every number 1 I see. I like your thinking. Now that she has secured the right paper, she is doing her homework. All she had to do was write a story using her 10 spelling words. It doesn't need to be on notebook paper.  

Which brings me to another paper rant. The one time H let her pick a piece of paper from my stash, she used the last sheet of my favorite paper. It was $2 a mother effing sheet!  I wanted to rage, but then she looked so proud to use "Mommy's good paper." I didn't say anything. I am still bitter. lol

Mysterious_wife

Boy, I am wordy over paper. 

ks3pink

This sounds like every day in my house. DD is in second grade. It doesn't get any better.

Mysterious_wife

You have no idea. I seriously have over 1,000 sheets. I would venture to say over 2,500

Belou52579

Homework was a big issue at our house, too (not so much homework now in the 4th grade believe it or not). We split it up between the two of us for help but I've heard every excuse known to man not to have to complete something that the teacher included in a packet. "I don't know HOW" "My teacher said we didn't have to do THAT part" "We didn't get to learning that today" "It's too hard" "I don't have any colored pencils (lie)" and a lot of the time he would break down crying after all of those excuses. He's even tried to be sneaky and either "forget" it at school or hide it some place in his back pack.

I figure its because he was too young to know how to express himself any other way in first/second grade...The ONLY way I could get through homework nights was by heavily drinking wine.

Mysterious_wife

fredalina said:

Maybe you need a new routine. What is the one you're using now?

I give her a snack and 15 mins to do whatever she wants when she comes home. Anything over 15 min. is pure hell. I wonder if we should jump into homework first thing.

It does not help, that we are the same person. We are both stubborn and pushy. My poor poor H has no hope.

btaylor19

I never did homework until after dinner because otherwise I was fried.  Is that feasible at all?

Mysterious_wife

btaylor19 said:

I never did homework until after dinner because otherwise I was fried.  Is that feasible at all?

Good suggestion! I will try that next week