Homeworkin'

[moominmolly]

this article from mzrowan got me thinking about homework -- one of my favorite things to hate. The article details one father's attempts to do his 8th-grade daughter's homework every night for a week, and it gave me chills. 3 hours! a day!

Natalie has nightly homework, and she's in a phase of being interested in completing it, but when she stops being interested? I don't know what will happen.

Parents of older kids - how do you deal with homework? Is it too much? Everyone: WTF HOMEWORK?

Comments

[metaphortunate.livejournal.com]

There has been an update on the marshmallow test, showing that kids did better on the marshmallow test when authority figures had followed through on promises in the past. In other words, when kids had been promised later rewards and not gotten them, they quite rationally disbelieved in future promises of later rewards.

It's always more complicated!

[bloodstones.livejournal.com]

It makes me really happy when someone has already proved my hypothesis - that's exactly the kind of situational or environmental factor I was thinking about when I said that I don't think it's right to think of these as absolute traits, so much as tendencies that can and will vary over time.