My 6-year-old daughter link home from school with a homework assignment this weekend. A little moss, a fake pond, a plastic frog, easy-peasy, right? Why not, i have to do my homework but i don't want to hear ask?
As a single mom, I try my hardest to make her education a priority in my overfilled life because I know that education is one of just many things that will play a role in the foundation of her future. School, while important, is not everything homework me. Have of the greatest minds in our hear were but and even highschool! But before you get all up in don't want about that statement, let me assure you I would love nothing more than for my daughter to graduate college.
Of course I would.
I reached out to them the first week of school to politely tell them my daughter would only be doing as much homework as would feasibly fit i have to do my homework but i don't want to hear our lives. I asked them to contact me if she was struggling in any areas so that I could shift our focus onto those subjects and I asked them if they had any questions for me.
They looked at me like I had absolutely lost my mind … which I was fully expecting. Because what we are doing is not normal and I get that. The first year her teacher was great and completely understanding.
The second year, not so much. Thankfully, the meeting went well. Although I went into the meeting go here I was going to need to defend my alternative lifestyle, I walked out feeling as thought my viewpoints were not only understood, but respected. Since then, my daughter completes about 40 percent of her homework.
What will those decisions be? This weekend will NOT be spent making a fake frog habitat in a shoebox. Shut The Eff Up!
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