Re: Homework for a 5 year old - how much involvement needed.

bizby40 wrote:

So, my answer was addressing the hypothetical situation that
I had a child who struggled with math and yet was required to
incorporate math into every subject the way Banty's son who
struggles verbally is required to incorporate writing into every
subject.


	Even in that case, it is silly to whack him
over the head with indirect work.  People have a
limited amount of energy for focused, high quality
cognitive work.  School eats up a lot of that for
kids.  When they get home to do their homework,
it makes a lot of sense for their homework to be
efficiently targeted towards their needs whenever
possible.  If you take the kid who is strong in
math and weak in writing and load up all the
homework up with writing, you can't even save
the math homework for the end knowing that he
can still do it even with his mental energy
flagging.  It's going to be a long, hard slog
(and he's going to be learning and retaining
less with every passing minute).  As I said
elsewhere, all the issues are interrelated.
If you've only got one minor issue going on,
you can cope.  Start putting them together and
you've got an untenable situation *really*
fast.

Best wishes,
Ericka
.

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