If You Have Schoolagers

[Play Care]

Homework is just practice and review of what they have been learning the last few days and most of the time they don't need help (maybe a little guidance to stay on task).

Not here . Our kids are given work to try and do at home then they go to school the next day to review and then learn what they could not complete in their homework the night before .

Thank you common core .

No kidding! I was struggling with my second graders math! And she would have no idea how to do it (she has ADHD) in our case the school district put the lesson on their web site, so I would have to look it up but I obviously can't do that for the dc kids.
Any parent of a SA kid who thinks I'm going to help with homework is told explicitly what I will and won't do. If they want homework help/tutoring my DH gets $35 and hour to do so (he's a teacher)
Keep in mind that last twenty minutes or so of our day is table activity, so everyone is at the table with something - if a SA child makes the choice not to do their homework, it's not because of anything else going on here, KWIM?

[cheerfuldom]

I used to take school agers and would provide the opportunity but not force homework. It is the same thing as my potty training policy.......I will provide the opportunity to learn but will not use my daycare hours to force a resistant child to do something thus turning my daycare into a place of conflict and also taking away time from the other kids. This is mixed age group care...no guarantees homework will be done. and I dont appreciate parents that dont want to do anything with their own kids! Kids that are gone almost all day, eating meals away from home, doing homework with the sitter......when are they ever even with mom and dad? If you dont do meals and homework together, what do you even do with your own child when they are school age? Its always the same parent that runs their kids around to sports and stuff too.