tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325323651478677418.post5725315275551533000..comments2023-04-30T07:22:29.187-04:00Comments on "These fragments": Mothering Monday: Homework Accountability and FailureTiffany Wacaserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08224661646987749451noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3325323651478677418.post-27232780378748759362016-05-09T15:09:12.213-04:002016-05-09T15:09:12.213-04:00I've talked with you on this subject. Since w...I've talked with you on this subject. Since we talked, I have stepped back. I do check on my son's grades, but not regularly. Often it's not early enough to catch when he has failed to turn something in. I also do ask if he has homework when he gets home and remind him to think of every class because he really is so forgetful. But he has been doing better. After one term of me really helping him manage and organize it all, he earned better grades and liked that, so this last term he took over and did fairly well. He did end up missing a couple big assignments in two classes and didn't do as well as he wanted to in those two classes because of it so this term he is trying harder to remember to do everything and turn it in (with him, it's mostly hard for him to just turn it in). <br /><br />I do check over their math if they ask me to. That's because I've found that most of the teachers don't have time to go over specific problems with kids, and I want them to know what they are doing. Math was a strong subject for me so I look over their work and if they miss any, I circle that they missed it but make them take a second look at it. If they don't understand it at that point, I help them with it. Often, they have missed it because they made a slight error in calculation or they were lazy and sped through it without thinking it through. But I want to make sure they aren't getting problems wrong because they don't understand, which is why I go over it with them. I see myself as their tutor in that way. That's for my older kids, when they bring math homework home. I also will help edit written papers and go over the writing process with them to help them. <br /><br />I have stepped back a bit because I was tired of stressing out about it for them. It is their responsibility after all. JennaKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10724959154514125980noreply@blogger.com