My daoughter is also a 3rd Grader. Every day, she goes to watch TV after school. She starts to do at 4:00pm. We are in US. I am a working mom. She doesn't have lots of homework. She does a little on Monday. She saves lots of homework on Thursday. On Thursday, it is the nightmare between she and me. I need to correct her mistakes, she is not very patient to listen. She just waited for the answers. She doesn't want to do the book report. She only copies the beginning, the middle and the end. She never asks what she doesn't understand. Her result of course is not very good. I think I need to push her to work better again. It is my hard time now. We want to teach her to be more independent. The teacher won't do much on academic. It is the student's responsibility to learn. Teachers' responsibility is to give them homework. Teacher doesn't correct their homework too. During the teacher and parent's conference, the teacher only let you know what was the weakness of your daughter and asked me to do more on that part at home. I think every child has the same problem, not willing to do the homework, not willing to learn. The kids only like to play all the time. Is there any good way to motivate the kids to do their homework?
lok^^b,
i did the same thing yesterday. i slapped my 8 year old again cuz he didnt know where his homework is.....it's not the first time and i really should control my temper. he's driving me crazy cuz he's so unorganized and he is like your daughter, 做事慢 做功課懶散 唔溫書....dunno what to do..
suecheung,
i am in us too. i have the same problem. the teacher is not reviewing the homework as well so i have to do all the work for my son..meaning correcting his mistakes..public school teacher is really lazy..............