Last year I got really good about filtering through my daughter’s folders for homework assignments and newsletters.
And then we went to Disneyland and I kind of fell off the “help your kid with homework” wagon.
She’s extremely bright so maybe I just didn’t feel that sitting down for 20 minutes of reading every night and documenting it for school the next day was super imperative. She would read entire Junie B. chapter books in a matter of hours. I’d quiz her on the content and then buy her the next in the series.
But I didn’t write it down like we were supposed to and send her reading log back to school with her every Monday.
My bright, smart, capable little girl received a big PLUS in the Homework category of her report card for the first quarter of the school year.
The last quarter of the school year my heart dropped when I saw her Homework grade had plummeted to a big MINUS. I happily raved about how great she had done…covered up the minus and was all “Way to go! Nothing to see here…LET’S GET ICE CREAM!”
That grade was not about her. It was about me.
I failed First Grade Homework.
This year I vow to do things differently! I will read every bit of paper that comes home in those folders! I will make flash cards out of their weekly spelling lists! I will have their clothes laying out for them every morning. I will make lunches well in advance. And I will have reading logs signed and ready to go the night before school dammit!
Unlike me, my kids will develop healthy study habits. They will not procrastinate. They will be organized and tidy. They will thrive and succeed and earn big giant PLUS symbols forever. And all because I helped them establish routines that breed SUCCESS!!
I will not fail at Homework this year.
I will not fail at Homework this year.
I will not fail at Homework this year…