To not want to be making a fucking junk robot for ds to take to school?

[lecce]

I hate, hate, hate craft. Since having ds2, who loves it, I have learnt that it's fine if I just let him get on with it. So he'll often spend the best part of an hour messing about with paint, boxes, glitter, glue etc. Usually the end result, is, well, unrecognisable (polite way of putting it), but ds is always happy and I understand that the process is what counts, and his explanations and pride in the end result tell me that it has been worthwhile.

However, making specific items from a book or Mr arsing Maker tend to end in tears. They never look right; whichever glue we use fails to stick anything; there is some crucial item we can't get and the end result looks nothing like the pictures. So, we avoid this kind of thing.

Now ds2, in reception, has been told he has to make a robot at home to discuss at show and tell. I am very conscious that others will bring in robots that look as if they have been made professionally. We have got started this morning, and, so far we have discovered that the paint we have seems to just move around the box, rather than providing a thick covering, so that it is very hard to cover the writing on the box. This means I have had to do most of the painting as ds couldn't get the hang of dabbing it on and not brushing. Also, the items from recycling we are using are thick and require cutting with big 'grown-up' scissors - so, no, ds can't do this either. The result is I have spent the morning saying, "No, not like that," "Don't touch that now," "No, you can't do this bit," "let me do this," "No, not like that!" I have tried to keep the hysteria and irritation out of my voice, and he seems happy enough, but this is not how I want to spend the limited time I have with him (I work f/t)

So, I have done most of the work - yet it will still look crap compared to many others, I am sure - so what is ds going to say at show and tell? "Mummy did X", "Mummy snapped at me...?" He is shy and is yet to speak to his teacher , so I don't really see that forcing him to talk about how he did something he didn't really do is the way to get his confidence up.

AIBU to not want to have to do this sort of thing unless we choose to?

[BreakingDad77]

Can you get DS some gloves or something so they can do more 'dangerous' things?

[lagirafe]

Haha oops!

[SwedeDreams]

FUCKED BY MY OWN JUNK ROBOT

MN Mum confesses all in tearful school shocka

[however]

Oops. Sorry.

[however]

Yanbu. But next time, get foil and wrap it around the cardboard. Then stick a couple of bottle tops on it. Much easier.

[vindscreenviper]

Well the op's DS will be in year 2 now so he probably makes his own funking junk robots

[ilovesooty]

I sometimes think zombie threads should be locked so that tossers can't up them.

[spillyobeans]

Not meaning this in a nasty way, i think you need to chill a little bit and try and have more fun whilst doing it, as even though it might be a silly excersise at least your dc is having fun (plus when you dont have certain bits and bobs or whatever then that can make them more creative - you could say 'hmm thats not working what do you think we could use' etc. Even if it doesnt work dc will feel good that youve tried his idea)

[lagirafe]

I love this stuff! We are also currently making a robot (though year 2) and I suspect DS' teacher will notice that he's had a slight helping hand from me
I think I enjoy it almost as much as DS does!!!!!!

[Mumoftwoyoungkids]

A friend of mine did a biology degree in the early days of the Internet and was doing a project on lactation in mammals. She innocently googled and found herself on some rather niche porn sites!

[SmillasSenseOfSnow]

Someone used inappropriate language on the internet??!!

[MrsNextDoor]

Oooh it's an old one! Who is RCTADMIN when theyr'e are home and WHO are they telling to change titles on "blogs" As someone else said it's a thread...on a discussion forum!

You can't police the net! Get a better programme for the children who're searching robots online! One that filters out the fucks.

[MrsNextDoor]

I'd have helped him cut out a flat one...and then let him adorn it with buttons, straws...general crap.

[BerniceBroadside]

I've only got a minute, so this may have been mentioned, but if you mix a little pva glue with the paint it covers the item much better.

However, I agree that parent homework sucks.

[TedAndLola]

lol @ wanting to remove all swear words from google.

In secondary school we were tasked with making a castle. I made one (by myself) where the front swung open to show the rooms inside, which I kitted out with furniture and paper people. It was like a doll's house. I came second to one that had, by the kid's own admission, been made by his dad. I'll never forget that slight

[FarFromAnyRoad]

It's not a blog. It's a thread. And it's two years old. Have you got nothing else to do?

[rctadmin]

please can the title of this blog please be changed as it contains inappropriate language. children have searched for "things you can’t use to make a junk robot" in a google search and the title "To not want to be making a fucking junk robot for ds to take to school?" is the result in a google search. please change the title of this blog

[freddiefrog]

YANBU. I hate doing this stuff.

DD2's primary school is obsessed with what it calls "family homework fun". Every half term we're given a project where we're supposed to sit down as a family and build something, then the child and a parent gives a presentation on whatever we've built to the class

Last half term we had to build a pirate ship and treasure map, which we totally forgot about until the day before it should have been handed it. Cue me & DH up until god knows what time finishing the bloody thing off.

This half term we have to create a world and give a talk on it.

WTF for?

And to add insult to injury, they send the stuff home afterwards

[KittiesInsane]

I see someone has already mentioned the Glue Gun.

My life is so much better with a glue gun in it. Anything can be stuck together with hotmelt glue.

[CreatureRetorts]

Op you're taking the robot making far too seriously.

If your ds enjoys it then let him do it and enjoy letting hkm do something he enjoys. So what if it ends up looking like a car park? Ok it's not to your clearly high standards but there you go.

[Toadinthehole]

Homework for young children should be scrapped. It is a waste of time and effort. It disrupts family time. It discourages independent learning because children of that age inevitably need some help from parents. It is not the job of parents to do the teacher's job or to do things that ought to be done in school. I rather suspect that in many cases schools inflict homework on families to beef up their results - basically by obliging parents to become surrogate teachers. It is a very, very poor substitute for intelligent teaching.

I have two children, 8 and 5, both of whom are doing okay. The younger one gets two reading books instead of one, because her reading is advanced. I'm not quite sure I follow the logic, but there it is. The elder one gets daily spelllings, random arithmetic, a reading book, a maths problem sheet, and sometimes work that couldn't be finished in class. I am given to understand that this classwork has been taken home by all the children. It is expected that all this work is done with parental supervision. I can spend up to an hour of my time supervising my two tired children who, to be frank, ought to be out having fun in the garden and leaving me to get on with my own stuff.

I hate homework. It is a tyrannical shibboleth of modern times and must be DESTROYED.

[greenfolder]

If they want kids to do it themselves, it needs to be stuff the average child can do. The average 4 year old will not be able to build a robot on their own. My 4 year old would not even be able to draw one.

[ScarerAndFuck]

If you work or have younger ones you just have to run faster towards the door in a morning. The teaching assistant can only take down so many in one go, it's survival of the fastest.

[Ghostsgowoooh]

Sarahandfuck im opened mouthed at that! What happens if you have work or younger siblings to attend too?

I remember when I was in my last year of primary and my teacher set a class homework project which was build a model of your house and there was a prize for the best. My dad who was very good craft wise completely took over against mt wishes and built a perfect scale model of our house out of thick white card. It had scale rooms and everything. All I was allowed to so was colour the damn thing in. Needless to say I was disqualified and I had the eternal shame of my dad storming up to school and tearing strips od the teacher. I still cringe now.