Should we help kids do home work?

[ozwinner]

Can we help you with your homework Al ????????????????

Yeahs please, bring cleaning stuff, and wear your French maid outfit like last time.

Al

[Grunt]

Yeahs please, bring cleaning stuff, and wear your French maid outfit like last time.

Al

Bob, I though you saved the maid outfit just for me.
I'm begining to think that you're a bit of a hussy.

[echnidna]

A hussy ..... A HUSSY .....A HUSSY

I've never been so insulted.

I'll have you know I'm an out and out ****!!

[echnidna]

I wouldna thought that the word s l u t was a nasty !!!!

[Gumby]

I've never been so insulted.

Stick around, you will be

[Auld Bassoon]

Hi Ozwinner!

I don't think that it's a simple yes / no question. If the oik in question has made a half decent attempt (as someone has already pointed out), then help should be given; if, however, it's just a question of doing their work for them, then clearly, the answer must be "no".

Cheers!

[ozwinner]

Bob.

Every**** is nasty ****.

A* *

[craigb]

No.

Let the little scrotes do their own. That way they might actually learn something.

[corbs]

There is help and there is help.

So my answer is yes to the first kind and no to the second.


Peter.

I cant tell the diference between the first help and the second help:confused:, what did I just say yes to? I need help but I am not sure if I need the first or second variety.

[Sturdee]

I cant tell the diference between the first help and the second help:confused:, what did I just say yes to? I need help but I am not sure if I need the first or second variety.

Sorry, but if you don't know what kind of help you need how can we help you?


Peter.

[oges]

I think 'assist' is the word to use here

[goat]

i voted no i don't see how getting them a "F" will help them

[zenwood]

I voted yes and no.

My approach to helping my 3,000 kids with homework (sometimes feels like that many) is to try to encourage them by showing that the material is genuinely interesting if approached in the right way. Usually there are more ways than one to answer a question, and I try to think of different ways to answer it: they can latch on to the one that makes the most sense to them. I try also to talk to them about how the questions fit in to the rest of life. My daughter had to choose a topic to do with slavery and race (she's interested in American slave history). I suggested she look into early race relations in Australia, link it with the Stolen Generations debate, and try to identify modern equivalents to racist thinking (terrorist stereotyping?) or slavery (people locked into unsatisfying work?). She didn't end up doing that, but it gave her some ideas, and we had a good talk about it.

Sometimes I resort to asking one of the older siblings to help with a question in the younger sibling's homework. Just last night, there was an arithmetic question: "Mary has $20.00, and spends $2.50 on food, $1.75 on drink and $6.00 on entertainment. How much does she have left?" I explained how to add up the total spent, and then do the subtraction. But then I was stumped. I couldn't remember the trick of crossing out and making 0s into 10s. I asked his older brother to help, and he did it with ease. Worked like a charm. I let them check with a calculator afterwards. I still think manual arithmetic is a useful skill for understanding how numbers work, independently of its value for actual computation.

[Ian007]

They only fail when they stop trying.
I dont get all this fail/win crap.

As long as they grow up to be happy heathy human beings, what else can you want??

Al

Electrician, Refrigeration Mechanic, Plumber,Builder
or
Lawyer,Teacher,Doctor,Football Player

you know Profesional people

so they can provide for me in a way in which I would like to become accustomed



Cheers Ian


Just Joking

[AlexS]

I was a mature age maths/computing student at the same time as daughter#1 was doing HSC with 4 unit maths, D #2 was doing school cert and SWMBO was doing childcare cert. There were times when we didn't just help with each others homework, we did each others homework.