School-Aged Children
When do your school-aged children do homework?
We are currently doing homework as soon as the kiddos get home from school and off of the bus, but am wondering if this is the "norm" and when everybody's kids are doing homework after school.
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Re: When do your school-aged children do homework?
I give my kids about 30 minutes to unwind and snack, then they have to start HW. DD goes to a very tough magnet middle school, and can have as much as 2 or 3 hours of work in a night. Usually it's more like an hour or 90 minutes, but she cannot wait until evening to start, or she's too tired to do well.
DS has 20 minutes of reading + whatever other small assignment he has to tackle each day. So for him it's more a matter of establishing good study habits and getting into the routine of "homework first; fun second" at this point.
DD1 likes to get her work done right away. She usually eats her after school snack while doing the work.
DD2 likes to do her work in the morning. She gets up so early, it hasn't been a problem.
DD3's does her work while I make dinner.
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She does it right after school. Our normal routine when she gets home: go the bathroom, wash hands, get juice/milk/snack, get started on homework. Monday-Thursday, she consistently has math, spelling, and reading. Some days, they have extra materials to read in a particular area (social studies or science). This year, her teacher said he prefers not to give homework over the weekend.
There are a few times that we don't do it immediately after school. For instance, if she has a cross country meet. It is much harder for her to concentrate if we do it later. She tends to get more upset if something is difficult.
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Daddy picks him up a couple of days a week and he prefers to wait for me for most of it (he might do his math, but will definitely wait for me for reading and spelling). In that case, I get home around 5 and we do an earlier dinner and do homework right after -even before I clean up the kitchen.
On Thursdays, DD has ballet at 4:30, so he's been bringing his homework with him and doing it in the hallway with a friend who has a little sister in DD's class. That's not the most efficient homework period - and he has spelling tests on Fridays - but he's knows the material. If I were worried, we'd change things up.