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How Does That Go Over With The Teachers?

June 23, 2019 by not your average mom 2 Comments

When it comes to elementary education, there are three things I feel pretty strongly about. I don’t believe in homework for students in grades K through 4. I think kids need way more recess than they currently receive. I don’t believe kids should have cell phones in school. If you’ve been around here for a […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: elementary school, homework, homework in elementary school, testing in elementary schools

I’m Pushing Back On Homework. Hard.

October 17, 2018 by not your average mom 7 Comments

This is the box that contained the pizza we had for dinner tonight. Those holes and that big gash in the box? That is the result of a homework meltdown tonight. It’s not the first meltdown we’ve had here. It’s not the second. It’s not the third. Between my second, third, and fourth grader, it’s […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: elementary school homework, homework, how to handle kids' meltdowns, meltdowns

Are your kids playing you?

October 27, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I work Monday through Friday coaching the swim team from 4:30 to 8:30. So I’m not really around once all the kids are home from school to help out with homework, but I am  100%  the default parent in that department. Number 3 and 4 get home from school around 3:00, so they know if they […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: computer, homework, positive discipline, rpinter

A Letter To My Child’s Teacher

October 10, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

Editor’s note: I did send this exact email to one of the kid’s teachers, but wanting to not throw the kid under the bus, I changed the Number of the kid and I may or may not have changed the gender. Dear Mr. (Science Teacher), As you know,  there is a personal science experiment due […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: experiment, homework, journal, moon, science

Maximum Threshold Reached

May 11, 2016 by not your average mom 8 Comments

This afternoon after I picked up Number 7 from school, we made a quick stop at the place where I get my hair cut because I had to ask them a question, and when we left they gave Number 7 a lollipop and when we got into the car she took the wrapper off and […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: homework

The way we teach math is f*cking ridiculous.

January 23, 2016 by not your average mom 23 Comments

Today I had a conversation with Number 3’s math teacher and I broke down crying. Yep. I was sobbing on the phone over math homework. And I used to be an elementary school teacher. But last night was the last straw. Number 3 lost all focus. I lost all patience. And ultimately, he crumbled up his math […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: homework, math, Number 3

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