To make DS do his homework all over again?

[MrsSnape]

Bit trivial compared to some but...

DS has just 'completed' his homework. He was supposed to draw two characters from a book (victorian orphan style story) and add descriptions.

He's basically drawn a quick head, body, legs and arms (arms just stuck on like stick men) then scribbled stuff like "raggy clothes" "not enough to eat" "unhappy" and pointed them to random bits of the drawing. These 'descriptions' are not evident in the drawing at all. So, I told him to go and draw the clothes raggy and show that they're unhappy etc...he went away and scribbled on the clothes, CROSSED an arm out and drew another one and slapped a 'sad' mouth on.

He's almost 10 and this drawing resembles that of a 4 year old. I KNOW he's not a good drawer, not everyone is and I'm not expecting a masterpiece but he could do better than that at his age, surely?

Or am I being too hard on him? (he rushed it because he wanted to play chess instead).

Well, it's better that he does it again at home rather than at lunch time at school tomorrow meaning he won't be able to go out and lay with his friends.

I'm always tempted to let ds hand things like this in though so he an learn the consequences of rushing. It often works alot better than me making him repeat it IYSWIM.

nope - I would have done the same...

DD1 is only 6 but she sometimes rushes through her homework without reading the instructions and makes a total hash of it.

I always make her do it again & explain that she should take pride in her work and do her best.

It may sink in by the time GCSEs loom...

Sounds like a great piece of modern art - conceptual rather than figurative. Damien Hirst ain't such a good drawer either. Your ds could be an artist in the making!

i think your being bit hard on him.id have maybe said do you think thats what the teacher is expecting,let him take it to school andif teacher doesnt think hes trying hard enough then he/she can deal with it.he might just think mums being a nag again

cheesesarnie I agree
I do think home work can be a nightmare for parents as we have to put os much pressure on. I can remember so many rows with ds about this.

I had a similar thing a couple of weeks ago - DD1 is Yr 5 and doing Victorians too and had to write a paragraph about being a chimney sweep or something. The content was fine, but the presentation appalling. She wrote in pencil as she couldn't be bothered to find her handwriting pen and it was really sloppy (I knew she could do much better).

I asked her if she thought it was good enough, she said yes and I disagreed. She insisted it would be fine, so I felt vindicated when her teacher made her rewrite it the next day, in addition to her new homework!

Think DD1 learned a lesson there.

So maybe ask him if he thinks it's good enough?

making him do it again will make him hate learning.
I don't even look at the boys homework.

I'd make sure that homework is done at a time when there is nothing else 'more appealing' to do so that it gets full attention