It’’s an annual back-to-school routine. One morning you wave goodbye, and that (71)______ evening you’’re burning the late-night oil in sympathy. In the race to improve educational standards, (72)______ are throwing the books at kids. (73)______ elementary school students are complaining of homework (74)______ . What’’s a well-meaning parent to do
As hard as (75)______ may be, sit hack and chill, experts advise. Though you’’ve got to get them to do it, (76)______ helping too much, or even examining (77)______ too carefully, you may keep them (78)______ doing it by themselves. "I wouldn’’t advise a parent to check every (79)______ assignment," says psychologist John Rosemond, author of Ending the Tough Homework. There’’s a (80)______ of appreciation for trial and error. Let your children (81)______ the grade they deserve.
Many experts believe parents should gently look over the work of younger children and ask them to rethink their (82)______ . But "you don’’t want them to feel it has to be (83)______ ," she says.
That’’s not to say parents should (84)______ homework -- first, they should monitor how much homework their kids (85)______ . Thirty minutes a day in the early elementary years and an hour in (86)______ four, five, and six is standard, says Rosemond. For junior-high students it should be" (87)______ more than an hour and a half," and two for high school students. If your child (88)______ has more homework than this, you may want to check (89)______ other parents and then talk to the teacher about (90)______ assignments.