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• Mom Charged for Calling Son 49 Times a Day

  You can love your kids. Just don't LOVE your kids so much you start stalking them. In a case of helicopter parenting gone absolutely sky high, a seventy-three-year-old Austrian woman has been charged with stalking her son after two straight years of calling him as much as forty-nine times a day for two and a half years. Read More... Posted Apr 11 2009, 11:31 AM by JeanneSager with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: homework, helicopter parenting, stalking, grandmother, Jeanne Sager, phone, grandchild, controlling mother, phone rules, smothering

• Worksheets Die a Green Death, Kids Celebrate

  Oh what I wouldn't have given to skip worksheets in grade school. The totally useless (in a kid's mind anyway) busy work handed out by bored teachers to get us to sit down and shut up.  I guess I was just born a few decades too early. Sigh.  Teachers are saying bye bye to the worksheet in an effort to both cut costs and cut their carbon footprint, and today's kids are loving it. Read More... Posted Mar 31 2009, 10:34 AM by JeanneSager with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: education, computers, internet, technology, schools, online, homework, green, Jeanne Sager, twitter, plugged in, worksheets

• Cracking Down on Parents' "Help" with Homework

  Some schools in the Chicago area are trying to crack down on parent "help" on big projects, like science fair displays.  Science fair judges say the problem has been becoming greater in recent years.  Competition for college is one theory.  But the upshot is that when parents help kids too much with projects, the kids often don't learn very much.  Instead, kids find it harder to complete smaller assignments, being unused to work and having not learned to self-regulate.Another issue is that professional parents with jobs like Read More... Posted Mar 25 2009, 02:00 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: homework, science fairs, Shannon LC Cate, helping with homework

• Doing Homework On Lincoln's Desk

  There are many important questions our new President must face. But one of them is not in dispute – which First Daughter will get Lincoln's desk. That would be Malia, who cheekily called dibs on the 16th President's writing surface.... Read More... Posted Feb 04 2009, 03:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Celebrities, news, disney, music, school, video, barack obama, homework, michelle obama, malia obama, obama, president, Sasha Obama, Brett Singer, jonas brothers, nick jonas, obama video, president obama, the obamas are a great first family, first family, obama family, inauguration, Sidwell Friends, president elect obama, the white house, sasha and malia's first day of school, obama says his kids are cooler than he is, obama girls adjusting well to sidwell friends, lincoln's desk, lincoln desk, schoolwork, malia calls dibs on lincoln's desk, malia will do her homework on lincoln's desk

• Don't Forget to Check the Kids' Homework

  One mother found out the hard way how important it is to check your kids' homework before sending it in. Read More... Posted Jan 25 2009, 09:03 AM by KeriF with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: homework, stripper moms, Keri Fisher

• Why You Should Check Even Little Kids Homework

  This is making the email rounds and I thought I would share it with you. In general, I feel like my children should be responsible for their own homework. At the moment they are too young to be doing complex math problems or writing 20 page reports. But they might get an assignment like this one: "Draw a picture of one of your parents at work." So what exactly is mommy doing in this adorable little example of kiddie art? Read More... Posted Jan 21 2009, 06:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kids, parents, blogs, working moms, Ann Coulter, homework, single moms, strippers, silliness, Brett Singer, pics, images, email forwards, ha ha, is mom a stripper or just selling shovels, check your kids homework

• Balancing Work and Parenting—When You're the First Lady

  It’s hard to think of a more challenging place to balance work and parenting than the White House. But in an interview with Newsweek, Michelle Obama explains how she plans to continuing to being a “mom first.” Read More... Posted Nov 06 2008, 06:00 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: kids, school, homework, michelle obama, parent-teacher conferences, obama, transition, sasha, children first, malia, first family, first lady, balancing work and parenting, hands-on parenting, parent involvement

• They Say: Our Kids Are Anxious

  Ready for this week's sobering data? The average kid today is more anxious than a 1950's kid who is also a psychiatric patient.          Read More... Posted Jun 10 2008, 03:30 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, kids, divorce, studies, homework, anxiety, they say

• Homework: The Key to World Peace

  Find out how homework is going to save the world by watching Dave Eggers' TED Prize acceptance speech. Read More... Posted May 08 2008, 12:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with no comments Filed under: homework, public schools, volunteer, 826nyc, ESL students, writing tutors, TED, 826valencia, dave eggers

• School Libraries Lure Students With Coffee

  We Americans are a heavily beveraged culture. If we’re not holding a creamy iced-coffee in a clear plastic cup, we’re swigging water from brightly colored Nalgene or disposable plastic sport bottles. Our kids suck on sippy cups more often than soldiers carrying canteens. Everybody’s holding something potable in one hand or the other. Some school libraries are conceding to the ubiquitous water bottle or can of Red Bull and letting kid patrons ... Read More... Posted Nov 01 2007, 02:31 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: nutrition, school, coffee, kids health, libraries, Madeline Holler, students, homework

• Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids' (Parents) Alone!

  Don’t get me wrong, I love reading and writing and thinking and talking and everything about learning and mind expansion and all that. And I love supporting my kid’s school, helping the teachers, setting a good example for my daughter. I even feel a little crushed when I see the same faces at school meetings, wishing more parents would just get involved. So I’m not sure why, but I’m really irritated with this New Jersey high school teacher ... Read More... Posted Oct 05 2007, 06:23 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: high school, teacher, homework, PTA, parent and kid fun

• Kids Using MySpace to [cough] Do Homework

  Damn. If only there had been social utilities like MySpace and Facebook when I was a kid, and then I could have come up with thousands of creative ways to waste time network. But no, I had to make due with the antiquated telephone, spending hours on the phone with friends learning to play songs using the buttons on our brand-new touch-tone set (yep! always on the cutting edge of technology!). We called it "doing homework". But now! Kids can waste time claim to be doing homework a whole new way! Some things don't change.   Read More... Posted Aug 19 2007, 11:14 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: kids, Facebook, MySpace, homework, Blackberry, time wasting

• Let's Ban Academic Preschools: Kids Should Play

  I get a little sick inside when I hear about preschools that send homework home for three-year-olds. Homework? I think homework is ridiculous in first grade, let alone preschool. Since when did we decide to take the fun out of childhood? Kids in preschool should be allowed to play. Period. That's how kids learn, in case anyone forgot this. They learn through play: experimenting, trying new things, building their own minds. Through play they learn how to learn. Drilling kids this age on numbers or the alphabet gives them no long-term advantage, and in fact can just take the joy right out of learning. Learning for kids should be a joyous discovery, not a tedious rote drill. Read More... Posted Aug 10 2007, 12:28 PM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: kids, preschool, toddlers, play, homework, academic preschools

• Picking a Preschool: What Are the Deal-Breakers?

  Several months ago, in a desperate hunt for daycare, my husband and I began preschool shopping in our neighborhood and every location close enough for me to get to without a car. We were suddenly thrust into the stressful situation of picking a preschool, a much bigger choice with many more variables than we'd ever imagined. We had some vague expectations of the place that would be a good fit for our family -- diverse, safe, bright and clean, buzzing with activity with definitive quiet and nap times, supportive and concerned about life outside the facility.  What I wasn't prepared for was the issue of homework. HOMEWORK! In the two- and three-year old room. Read More... Posted Aug 08 2007, 06:06 PM by Jessica Ashley (Sassafrass) with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: preschool, Mothertalkers, homework

• Homework Stressing Out Kids

  I ran across an article online where a mother was wondering what to do. Her daughter, who was in kindergarten, was getting really stressed out over her homework. The problem is her child is a perfectionist and the mom was wondering if she should ignore the problem or help the little girl with her homework. I think it is clear that if your child is having problems with homework you should help them. Fortunately the author of the article agrees.  At first when I read this I thought the mom was asking if she should do her daughter's homework for her. I want to say I am four square against that. The kid will never be self-reliant if you take on her responsibilities this early. I'm glad that wasn't the question, but I am concerned about a child getting that worked up about her kindergarten homework. I'm no child development specialist, but I think beyond just helping her out this mom might want to check into relaxation techniques to help her daughter calm down. If she is this jacked up about her homework now, she is going to have a nervous breakdown when she gets to long division. Who is giving kindergarteners homework anyway? I never got homework when I was five. Did you?  Posted Apr 19 2007, 07:40 AM by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, stress in kids, kindergarten, homework, stressed out