My Daughters Homework
I'm sure we've all succumbed to the following dilemma, should we as parents contribute or assist with our children's homework?? Is it right that obviously you will make a little more "effort" in assisting their answer processes? You know what I mean?
When faced with images like this and you can see the frustration in their little faces as they "just don't get it!!"; what is a parent supposed to do?
You know that inside they are secretly screaming!
As I said, what is a parent to do? The moral dilemma kicks in, do I don't I??!!
I guess it's a personal decision, the way I look at it is I may as well try my best in making their homework easier; that is atleast until I don't understand it anymore!!!
I always finished my homework in class and then worked on other homework or read. I rarely had homework and if I did, it was group projects. Fortunately, I was in the type of groups where everyone put in some amount of work.
Homework is an instrument of the public education system, which is nothing more than socialized propaganda designed and engineered to brainwash subjects into being entirely dependent on government funded (taxpayer provided) infrastructures. Parents should play an active role in the education of the children, firsthand. Nothing they are learning in institutions of public education will keep them alive. Teach your kids valuable information, such as gardening, crop cultivation, foraging for wild edibles, fishing, hunting, how to make fire, water purification, alternative energy production...in other words...things that will actually help them survive should the "real world" take a shit and stop working as expected. There really is no moral dilemma involved, the responsibility for educating future generations rests with the parents, not with the state.
I agree with @justusgenstum.
I think homework is very unfair, as children should be allowed to switch off from thinking about school when they're at home. Home is for family time and play, not angst. It's just another way of controlling what a child does and thinks about. Ugh. I guess my thoughts would be to help your child get the homework done asap so she can have time to go play before bedtime and the whole cylcle starts all over again!
I much prefer home-/un-schooling.