And, as on any other battlefield, parents can use tactics that succeed or tactics that fail. They intend to do what they want to do when they want to do it, and homework just becomes another battlefield. If the homework struggles you experience are part of a larger pattern of acting out behavior, then the child is resisting to get power over you. Kids simply don’t view the home as the place to do schoolwork. In their mind, home is a place to relax, have a snack, listen to music, and play video games. The learning is structured and organized, and all the students are focusing on the same thing.īut when your child comes home, their brain clicks over to “free time” mode. Look at it this way: when your child is in school, they’re in a classroom where there aren’t a lot of distractions. So why is homework time so difficult? In my opinion, one of the major reasons is that it’s hard for kids to focus at home.

Others claim that they don’t have homework, but then the report card comes out, and you realize that their work was not being done. For many parents, getting their kids to do their homework is a nightly struggle.

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