I didn’t know what to expect when I came across this blog piece, How To Help Your Four-Year-Old With Homework,” but it put a smile on my face when I read it. Have a nice weekend. How To Help Your Four-Year Old With Homework by Who’s the Mummy How to help your four year oldContinue reading “How to Help Your Four-Year-Old With Homework”
Category Archives: Moms (and Dads) on a Mission
Moms and Dads on a Mission–Denver, North Carolina
Today’s guest blogger, Deidra Hewitt, lives in Denver, North Carolina, where she has two children in a public elementary school. A stay-at-home mom with a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and who took eight Masters classes in Early Childhood Education, she “would prefer that my children’s school stick to educating them. I do not feel thatContinue reading “Moms and Dads on a Mission–Denver, North Carolina”
Moms (and Dads) on a Mission–Rural Alabama
Today’s guest blogger, Jerri Ann Head Reason, lives in rural Alabama with her husband and their two sons, a 6 year old who just started first grade and a 4 year old. Jerri Ann, who has a B.S. in Education and a M.A. in Counseling, has been writing to me for over a year, everContinue reading “Moms (and Dads) on a Mission–Rural Alabama”
10 Tips to Start off the School Year
Over the summer, I kept on seeing the same type of article I’ve been seeing for over a dozen years about how to help your kids succeed in school and with homework. By now I’m sure you’re as familiar with that advice as I am: establish a routine and schedule for homework; limit distractions duringContinue reading “10 Tips to Start off the School Year”
Student Made His Homework Optional
A few weeks ago, I read a story in examiner.com, about a student, now 25, and a cum-laude graduate from college, who made his homework optional, both in high school and in college. Intrigued, I emailed his mother, Julia Rhodes, to find out a little more. She told me that her son, who had beenContinue reading “Student Made His Homework Optional”
Interview With Kerry Dickinson, a California Parent Who Successfully Changed Homework Policy in Her District
Today’s interview is with Kerry Dickinson, who has written many times for this blog including here, here, here, and here. Kerry, who has a M.A. in Reading, was a part-time teacher in Michigan before she had children. She now lives in Danville, California, with her husband and 9th and 7th grade sons and is currentlyContinue reading “Interview With Kerry Dickinson, a California Parent Who Successfully Changed Homework Policy in Her District”
Interview with Jodie Leidecker, Kentucky Parent Who Successfully Pushed her Local Elementary School to Institute Daily Recess
Today’s interview is with Jodie Leidecker, a native Kentuckian and a graduate of Berea College, the first interracial and coeducational college in the South. Leidecker lives in Berea, Kentucky, with her husband and their two children, a 9th grader and her currently home-schooled 10-year-old. She pushed her local elementary school to institute daily recess andContinue reading “Interview with Jodie Leidecker, Kentucky Parent Who Successfully Pushed her Local Elementary School to Institute Daily Recess”
A Home Without Homework is a Happy Home–Plumsted, New Jersey
Several times over the past year, Diane Hewlett-Lowrie of Plumsted, New Jersey, wrote about the overwhelming amounts of homework her second grader was getting in his local public school and the toll it was taking on her family. In January, she moved her son to a democratic community school. Last week, she wrote to theContinue reading “A Home Without Homework is a Happy Home–Plumsted, New Jersey”
Guest Blogger: First Grade in Public School Was Pure Torture
Today’s guest blogger, Tracy Stevens, is a former high school Spanish teacher who infrequently gave project-based homework to her students. Currently a telecom salesperson and the mother of two boys who attend private school after a difficult year in public elementary school, she is the author of abettereducation.blog, which is full of interesting interviews (includingContinue reading “Guest Blogger: First Grade in Public School Was Pure Torture”
Easing Homework Overload
Here’s a piece I wrote for Natural Awakenings magazine titled “Easing Homework Overload.” The free magazine is in health food stores around the country. Here’s my suggestion: If you find a copy in your community, pick it up and leave it on a park bench, at the library, on the steps to the school, atContinue reading “Easing Homework Overload”
Stop Homework 