You would think I would have learnt by now! Homework on a Sunday night is not a good idea! My head hurts!

[LoveMyGirls]

When i ask dd1 (8) to do her homework on a friday after school am i a soft touch and let her do 1 piece then forget all about the other piece which is complicated until sunday night when she about to go to bed and she says "muum I have homework! I am livid with myself for not making her do it sooner. Also how come she doesn't understand what to do even though i keep explaining over and over until my head really hurts. Thank god I am not a teacher

At least she remembers she has homework!!!!!! My ds still has no idea, I got quite a shock this week when we were suddenly thrust back into that old argument again

sunday morning .. best time IMHO

Twig, you are right we should have done it this morning, i've been a bad mummy! My dp went away this weekend (so have been left to my own devices which im not used to) my best friends came to stay over we all went to bed at 2.30am!!!!!!!!! Then i got woken up at 6am so was like a zombie, had to do food shopping and washing - i did those and half potty trained dd2 all morning and just totally forgot about it!

We've done our best the last two lines of the poen make no sense though.......they say.......
The wolf who saw it licked his eye and said that dove has had his pie"

Honestly it's crap but I really could think of anything else!

Basically you have a poem they have written and you (i mean dd1 erm..) have to change the last 2 words of every line and still make them rhyme, only changing the odd word here and there in between!

despite asking them several times over the weekend and them replying they havent got any. mine have just started their homework...oh it makes me cross. I've refused to help now and they are banned from tv, computer, playstation next week until they can prove they have done it all before Sunday night. ahhhhhhhhhh

I hate it too - but this week I managed to get DS1(6) to do his spellings by going up into his fort and throwing the completed spellings down one by one. Worked wonders!

He had a piece of writing homework to do where they had to copy labels into the teeniest tiniest boxes you ever saw. It makes me cross - DS1 struggles with his writing at the best of times - but I don't think many Yr 2s would be able to write neatly in them. He said 'Oh well, we'll just make the boxes bigger', which I thought was a great idea until he grabbed a pencil and did it freehand...

Later I had a phone call from my stressed SIL asking for help to change the passive voice into the active voice in a description of a science experiment. I could do it (but am an ex-English teacher) but assumed it was for her 14 yr old - until she told me at the end of the conversation it was for her son in Yr 6!!!

Sundays are blighted across the land...