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Homework!!!!

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Labro · 04/02/2013 22:56

How do I get an intelligent Yr 6 to do his homework?? It feels like a battle every night to gwt him to do stuff that hes already decided is tedious and boring, yet takes 10 minutes to do!

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simpson · 04/02/2013 23:34

Give him the choice to do it or not. If he chooses not to do it then he faces the consequences at school.

BackforGood · 04/02/2013 23:41

ditto what Simpson said.

Stopsittingonyoursister · 04/02/2013 23:45

Set an allotted time that is "homework time". At the beginning, go through the homework to make sure he understands what it is he has to do. Make sure he has no other distractions eg TV, phone, computer. Let him have, say, 30 minutes on his own to do the homework. Whatever isn't done at the end of it remains undone. Send a note in to the teacher the next day, explaining what has happened and what you have done, and let him face the consequences.

LindyHemming · 05/02/2013 07:20

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NotADragonOfSoup · 05/02/2013 07:36

Definitely let him take the consequences of not doing it. Better he learn now rather than at secondary school.

I made a point of speaking to DS2's KS2 teachers each year and saying that I would encourage him to do his homework and I would provide him with everything he needed but if he didn't do it I wasn't going to get into a fight with him. Any consequences as a result of this were his to take. They agreed that it was not worth me fighting with him about and were happy to make him do it at break/lunch if he had failed to do it at home.

Whilst he may not have done it at home every time, home life was far more pleasant! He seems to have learnt and does his homework when necessary now he is at secondary school.

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