AIBU to feel totally bemused and think 'you smug twatters'

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of the family who, when given the homework as set out below, came back to school after half term with properly packaged; foil wrapped; paper sleeved; fully printed complete with allergies and ingredients; home bloody made frikkin chocolate bars for the whole class?

This was the homework:

Design a chocolate bar wrapper, draw its net, colour it in and stuff.

They took 'stuff' waaaaaaaaaaaaay too far imho.

I really enjoy all that stuff too (and also rarely got to do that stuff with my parents)

But you can do loads of elaborate projects outside school where you can be as involved as you want - the more the better if the kids enjoy it!

But I still think the actual homework projects should mostly be done by the child - doesn't mean you have to miss out on that stuff altogether :)

Freudian, I you are right that we could do other projects together, but tbh we usually don't. H/wk projects are a bit of a push in the right direction. My DD has handed in beautiful stuff she's spent hours and hours on with lots of help and encouragement and also ropey stuff that we've quickly shoved together because we hadn't had time. She is ALWAYS involved, though.

Has just occured to me that when boys are older I will have 4 projects to encourage simultaneously. Eek! Maybe easier than one with tiny baby to juggle tho'.

Sure, the children should definitely be doing most of it- project is for the child's benefit, after all. Also not fair on other children who may sadly compare their own efforts to that of other pupils' parents.

Doesn't mean the parents are smug gits trying to show up the other parents. Could just mean they're a tad self-indulgent, and can't resist the lure of making a dolls' house.

Oops, I mean jiggle. Obvs I don't juggle with my baby.

What was the point of the homework???

"I didn't say there was anything wrong with making your own cocolate bars but that I think the family in the op probably ordered them from the internet."

I think it is sad over the thread people have said that this family has :

-done too much to help their child doing their homework.
-sad people with too much time on their hands
-done that because they are smug and want to look better than other parents
-probably not done anything at all and just ordered the chocolates online.

Positives anyone?

gorionSPARKLERS I also said in the same post

''Maybe the child in the family also designed his own label as well'' (poor grammar, I know)

I wasn't making any judgements in what I was saying, just pointing out that the chocolates could be ordered online (as Mrsnaplegs originally pointed out), so the family probably had not gone to the trouble of hand-making them all as others seemed to believe.

Good on them, I say (if you want my judgement)

Ha, I just love seeing homework projects that have so obviously been done by the parents. We used to get loads at DD's primary school. Well you know what? They are twatters who IMO are letting their children down and breading a generation of smug little people who won't have the best opinion of themselves.
Just let the children do their own homework ffs.

I love seeing homework that DD has produced, yes I help and I give her ideas etc but I have never ever taken the lead in her work. I have done sentence time in education.

I don't understand what the point is in giving year ones homework anyway. Why should they be designing stuff and trying to remember what a net is? The parents concerned have helped their child - they haven't robbed them of their shot at university or meant their whole academic career is a lie. Their child knows they were interested in what they were doing and they helped them. I think that's pretty good tbh.
I also think that saying 'Well my child did all their homework absolutely and totally by themselves, it's all their own work dontcha know.' is pretty damn smug too!

Oh... Am in two minds. Dont think little kids should have serious homework and dont think parents should do it for them... But this just sounds like the kind of thing I would love doing. I'd be thrilled if DS gets given projects like that when he gets to school, and I can really imagine me getting carried away to that degree. But doing it together, not without his participation of course!

Definitely not a journalist I am quite sure my spelling and my grammar would be much better if I was though.

I was just trying to make a point that from this thread, a few posters aside, this family is blamed because they invested themselves too much or because they have not invested themselves at all. In actual facts we have absolutely no idea what the exact involvement of the parents was.

OP without any proof has decided that the members of this family were twatters because they really took time to make the homework that was set look good.
I do really not understand that. Maybe I am really stupid but I cannot see how encouraging your child to be thorough seems to be somehow something to be ashamed of.

Disclaimer I am talking about posts in general, not only yours DaftApeth.

Thank Christ DC's headmistress is a working parent who hates home "projects" and dressing up days and therefore will have no truck with them in her school.

Otherwise I would make a total prat of myself and gain the loathing of all other parents, being a control freak perfectionist by nature. I have very occasionally done crafty things with my DC, but on the whole if they want something (costume, etc) they design it and then I improve interpret the design. They do lots of craft and later DT at school and the teachers are way better at being encouraging than I could ever be

Sounds like they're short of something to do. I bet their kid wasn't even interested.

Sound like they're short of something to do to me. I bet their kid wasn't even interested.