If your children have got through their GCSEs successfully, how much work did they do in year 10?
I'm struggling to work out what's reasonable. My dd is motivated but also very distractible (phone and social media mainly plus applying make up!). She also has a lot of other things to fit in during the week - singing and flute lessons, after school dance, youth groups, church, paper round, Duke of Edinburgh commitments.
She doesn't usually get home from school until 5, 6 on the day she has dance and 7 after singing (but that's once a fortnight). She doesn't like to do homework on Friday nights as that's youth group night.
But she's already feeling stressed. Last night she was still doing homework at 11, but this was partly because nothing got done at the weekend. I'm wondering whether she needs to give something up, but I'm reluctant as I feel she already wastes enough time on group chats! But I know teenagers need downtime too...
Is it realistic to have Friday night and Sunday daytime off completely and just do a bit on Saturday night if need be? Will she be able to manage the GCSE workload? I want her to have balance in her life. B
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Crazycrofters · 11/09/2018 13:05
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