Do you help your children with their homework?

My answer to to my question would be: it depends. IF it is my eldest daughter and she is asking me about scientific terms, terms like homeostasis, conjugated linoleic acid cla, allele, etc. or historical facts and figures which can all be a Google away, that would be fine. For help in her school projects, then yes, I will.

But if she asks me about the higher mathematical computation and formula then, no, I would have to beg off for I might even jeopardize her learning

For the two younger children, since they do their homework in school while waiting for the school service to arrive (which means waiting for one and a half hour before they start their way home, grrr…), I check their homework when they arrive. If they have quizzes, then I make reviewers for them to answer. If they are too sleepy, they will do these in  the morning when they arrive in school because they are arrive too early before the classrooms even open.

Helping your child with his/her homework is a two-way relationship. Not only does the child understand concepts he/she had difficulty understanding in class (providing the parents explained further), the parent also understands how his/her child learn. I know this for a fact because we homeschooled for three years

Homework help also serves as a bonding time for the parent(s) and child(ren) since they get to interact.

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