how do you get your dc's to do coursework

[2shoes]

tips please

i now have a headache as have spent whole evening nagging. must be an easier way

I ask them if there is any they need to do. I remind them. I let them know to ask if they need any help with anything. After that it's up to them. It's their coursework.

Around 9 pm on a Sunday evening they may just mention that they need to finish off their coursework for a Monday morning deadline. All hands to the pump then - and usually the printer has run out of paper and there is something dodgy on the computer.
I believe that GCSE coursework is going to be changed from 2007-2008 so that the writing up will be done in school. Hurrah. Much more fair for those whose mummies don't do it for them!

I have learnt just to remind them about course work and then try and leave them to it.
DD2 was awful with GCSE course work and didn't like being reminded. Although she did get it in on time. Now at 17 she is doing BTEC Performing Art at college which involves a lot of course work. She always seems tp be on the computer doing her work although she does sometimes leave it until the last minute to print it out!
She wants to do Performing Arts at University and knows if she doesn't get good grades now she won't be able to do that.

IMO you're best asking them if they need help and when they say no, leave them to it. A lot is done in school anyway
and they also seem to get loads of help/support in school - or maybe that's just our school(?). The more you nag, the more they resist

If you ask them if they are up to date with coursework and they say yes.... do not believe them... ask to see it.

I thought I was doing the right thing, letting DS go it alone.

Here is my thread about what happened...

disaster

no offence but I advoided that thread as knew it would worry me. I think I nag to much. but he just says he can't remember stuff!!!

As a teacher, I am avidly watching this thread!

Despite threats bribes and everything else, getting hold of coursework is like extracting teeth. Or as a colleague said "like pushing a dead horse up a hill". Particularly annoying are those who are mysteriously "absent" on handing in dates.....

Sorry if this isn't what you want to hear! But we find it as hard to get hold of as you do!

the good news is he has nearly finished. so fingers crossed he gets an extension

Don't worry 2shoes... my thread does have a happy ending

off to have a look and he got an extension

It is an absolute nightmare!! I have 3 x DSs - DS2 just doing GCSEs. At least he told us he had it to do - unlike DS1 who "completed" his Geog coursework at 11pm the night before handing-in day. He got a B grade for coursework (miraculously) and 97% in the exam. Ended up with an A grade overall, which was v good, but with a bit of effort in coursework could have got an A*. I just don't understand (my) boys attitude to coursework.

i was shut in the computer room and told i wasnt going to the concert i had tickets for until i had finnished my gcse geography coursework, and seeing as i needed my mum to drive me there i had no choice but to knucle down and do it! I also think the fact my mum was a teacher at my school made me get my ass into gear. Its only now i feel so sorry for what me and my siblings put my mum through!

Sanctions is the answer I find. You do this, you get that; you don't do this, you don't get that. We're talking basics here - ok, maybe not food, but I've considered it