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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

In expanded notation that would be (8 * 10) + (4 * 1)

October 20, 2015 by not your average mom

The transition from 4th grade to 5th grade in the school district I live in can be tough for some kids. The social and independent part of it has been great for Number 3. And the homework hasn’t been too bad either. But the pace of the math program is really hard for him. That’s […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: district, elementary school, homework, math, math practice, math test, middle school, test

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