What Homework Should Be
I have three grown sons (22, 21, 18) with my last son having graduated high school in June 2010. Parents have a tough job raising kids these days. I’d like to focus on one aspect of this job: homework. I don’t know about you but as a parent I found it progressively more difficult to motivate and help my kids as they climbed the years through their K12 education. Homework was that dreaded task that we had to encourage, bride, coerce, force, argue about, etc. with our kids. My kids grade 8-12 years were in a self-directed school which made this process even more interesting and difficult. I always found it frustrating that my kids had to push through content before they “got it” at various stages. Homework often further reinforced what they already felt, that they didn’t understand the concepts yet. By doing more problems, tasks, etc. at night they got progressively more frustrated with what they didn’t understand. I just read a refreshing...