I'm glad the topic was posted again-- did you see the update? Because of the article, he got offered a free ride somewhere. I'm really concerned about the aspect of kids not doing the homework. Dazey, I had that too, the wasted hours with the horrible worksheets that could take five seconds to do.
So I tried something new. I sat down with her and told her to write down the first answer, and the second. She looked at me in shock and we finished the rest of the worksheet in a minute. I said, "see how fast that was? Let's whip through all of these and then play a game."
Now, whenever she sees something mind-numbing, she generally tries to do it as fast as she can. Through many conversations with her about it, I've tried to have her focus on speed, so it's like a little game.
With certain assignments she likes doing, such as making a graph or math, she never has problems--and takes her time-- it always seems to be the mind-numbingly useless stuff that makes her sit there for hours.
I am hoping this will make her turn in her homework in the future!
