Is it just me or are the weekends just ridiculously tiring?!

[Ben10NeverAgain]

I only have one child.

He has ASD.

Am on long term sick from work.

I feel like I have run a marathon this weekend.

Didn't help that the weather was so lousy, and then that impacts on everything else. Plus you were doing homework with him too. Guaranteed to sap anyone of energy!

My Monday has ended up being even more tiring, thanks to having snotty girls off from school. Fortunately, ds has just gone to sleep, the girls are watching Scooby Doo and I have found some chocolate in the cupboard.

Hope you manage to get some rest today.

The homework this is just the worst bit of my weekend.

He can't do it Friday afternoon as too tired.

He won't do it Saturday morning.

Then we forget about it for a while.

Then we have a huge to-do about it on Sunday.

It's better than normal. It has to be in by Wednesday so we were having the huge to-do on Tuesday night

He got to go bowling and to the cinema this weekend. The rain didn't really stop anything. Then the homework resulted in kicking and hitting :(

I'm going to go with my friend's suggestion of him typing out whatever it is he needs to do and then he can copy it out in handwriting. I think that maybe the joint struggle of not being able to write clearly so he keeps having to rub out all the time plus the difficulty with trying to do whatever his teacher has told him that a Level 2 or 3 writer does is too overwhelming. Actually maybe that is the key - he said that he is no good at homework - I wonder if he is comparing his work with some of his classmates mentally?? .

Anyway - weekend over and next weekend is a BH. Any exciting plans anyone?

Ok. The other way round it is that you talk to the teacher and say that either they stop setting homework or they accept that it is a massive issue and upsetting his home life as he feels that he can't do it and that as a compromise to the teacher, you will offer to be a scribe for him at home. Get him to tell you what to write.

The homework thing really annoys me as apart from a distant memory of spellings and timetables, I never had homework until I started in Secondary School.

The Dragon Dictation App is good to use. As it types what you dictate. Is he left handed as well? My DS1 is, and that has not helped one little bit.

Shh, I used to dictate and DS2 typed for some and he dictated and I typed for the rest. So he was doing both jobs, but not at the same time. Unless the homework was handwriting practice, he never hand wrote it. He handwrites nearly everything himself now, at school.

We don't do homework. I'm not sure that really endears us to his teachers, but he's simply too exhausted during the week and needs time off during the weekend. He does read daily, but that's not really considered homework. (but DS2 is 5yo) I'm not planning on altering that any time soon.

Some weekends do seem to be extraordinarily long - especially the rainy ones.