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Jan
23
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 I am probably the only parent looking at a child’s grades and saying, “A’s & B’s? HOW CAN THAT BE? I want answers!” My stepson is in the 6th grade. He comes home each night and struggles with his homework. We have determined that he skims — everything. He skims the directions. He skims the reading assignment. He guesses at multiple choice. He will copy sentences the teacher wrote, word for word, as an answer. If asked to reword in is own words, he will change one word. If asked to write 3-5 sentences, you can be sure he will write 3, but say the same thing, 3 different ways. He cannot spell; he mixes capital letters with lower case. He writes above the line and over top of other letters below. He has no clue how to use punctuation. The curious thing is that his work is considered acceptable.
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Archive for the ‘School & Homework’ Category
Blog Posts by Emmie
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Jan
20
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Did you ever stop to think that what you say to your child’s teacher might be something incredibly frustrating for him or her to hear? And if you knew that, wouldn’t you want to know how to rephrase your statement or question?
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Jan
05
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Parents can get in big trouble when their kids skip school, sometimes even facing fines and jail time themselves. Recently in Florida, a law was passed that states that parents can go to jail for up to two months when their children (age 16 and under) skip school repeatedly, missing more than 15 days in one three-month period.
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Dec
20
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It may begin on Day 1 or several weeks (or months) into the school year, but at some point in most children’s academic lives, they’ll come home announcing emphatically, “I hate my teacher and she hates me!”
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Dec
07
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While on a field trip with my daughter, I noticed I had a voicemail on my cell phone. Â As I began listening, I was told that it was the guidance counselor of her middle school. Â My daughter is now in 6th grade and so far this year I thought everything was going very well. Â I felt a bit of a panic because I was worried something was wrong, but as the message continued, I found it was actually positive. Â The counselor wanted to meet with my husband and me to discuss how well my daughter was doing in math and talk about advancing and challenging her.
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Nov
28
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Should we reward our kids for good behavior or good grades? I have an internal struggle on this topic that rages within me and has for many years. Well before I had my own children, I had an idea of how I thought parents should handle certain circumstances such as an allowance for chores or rewards for good grades. That said, I find that what worked for my family even 2 years ago doesn’t necessarily work now.
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Nov
04
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Self defeating behaviors. Negative thinking. Procrastination. Self-destructive behaviors. Self-fulfilling prophecies. If you have a child (or children!) with ADHD, anxiety or depression, you have seen these behaviors close up and personal. These children get frustrated and believe they can’t do something — then they won’t do it and voila! “See Mom, I told you I couldn’t do it!” They’ll look at an assignment and see how long it is, or look at a book and flip immediately to the back to see how many pages it is, and without reading it at all, decide they just cannot do it. The sad part is, these children are masters at self-sabotaging.
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Oct
25
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As the parent of two school age boys, the things around here that matter the most are eating and getting rid of excess energy. Since they spend their days in public school with little wiggle room, I’m all about getting out the tension and stress once they arrive home in the afternoons. However, there seems to be a huge problem with that little ol’ plan of mine. It’s called “homework.”
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