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04-30-2017, 08:33 PM
https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/thumbor/vpKPRRatwelVYBQgo6aciR3UzSg/fit-in/160x160/filters:format_auto-!!-:strip_icc-!!-/2017/04/27/829/n/24155406/4623951359023e3d121a40.45843406_edit_img_image_434 71296_1493228940.jpg (https://www.popsugar.com/moms/Bunmi-Laditan-Post-About-Being-Done-Homework-43471296)If you ever worried about why your child was coming home with hours upon hours of homework each night, Bunmi Laditan - the mom behind The Honest Toddler blog (https://www.facebook.com/BunmiKLaditan/) - can **t only relate, but she can also serve as a reminder that you have the power to put a stop to it.
"My kid is done with homework," she wrote in a heated Facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/BunmiKLaditan/photos/a.1397535887160070.1073741827.1375076236072702/1896140190632968/?type=3). "I just sent an email to her school letting her k**w she's all done. I said 'drastically reduce' but I was trying to be polite because she's finished."
She **ted how her 10-year-old daughter, Maya - who is in school from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. and still has two to three hours of homework each evening - "loves learning" but has become more and more stressed by school. She's developed chest pains, and she's begun waking up before dawn worrying about her workload.
"How does homework until 6:30, then dinner, then an hour to relax (or finish the homework) before bed make any sense at all?" she asked. "Is family time **t important? Is time spent just being a child relaxing at home **t important?"
She continued:
Children need downtime after school the same way adults need downtime after work. They need to play with their siblings. They need to bond with their parents in a relaxed atmosphere, **t one where everyone is stressed about fractions because - SURPRISE - I'm **t a teacher. Children need time to just enjoy their childhoods or is that just for the weekends . . . although we also do homework on Sundays.
So, after consulting a tutor and a therapist, Bunmi sent an email to Maya's teachers that let them k**w she wasn't going to allow her daughter to get wrapped up in the pressures of unnecessary homework (https://www.popsugar.com/moms/How-Create-Homework-Routine-Kids-42978176) any longer.
She's **t yet certain how the school will react but is prepared to homeschool if necessary. She'll have to hire a tutor and find a group of parents doing the same thing, "but I have ** choice at this point," she wrote.
"We all want our children to grow up and succeed in the world. While I believe in education, I don't believe for one second that academics should consume a child's life. I don't care if she goes to Harvard one day," she said. "My kid needs to be a kid."
أكثر... (https://www.popsugar.com/moms/Bunmi-Laditan-Post-About-Being-Done-Homework-43471296)
"My kid is done with homework," she wrote in a heated Facebook post (https://www.facebook.com/BunmiKLaditan/photos/a.1397535887160070.1073741827.1375076236072702/1896140190632968/?type=3). "I just sent an email to her school letting her k**w she's all done. I said 'drastically reduce' but I was trying to be polite because she's finished."
She **ted how her 10-year-old daughter, Maya - who is in school from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. and still has two to three hours of homework each evening - "loves learning" but has become more and more stressed by school. She's developed chest pains, and she's begun waking up before dawn worrying about her workload.
"How does homework until 6:30, then dinner, then an hour to relax (or finish the homework) before bed make any sense at all?" she asked. "Is family time **t important? Is time spent just being a child relaxing at home **t important?"
She continued:
Children need downtime after school the same way adults need downtime after work. They need to play with their siblings. They need to bond with their parents in a relaxed atmosphere, **t one where everyone is stressed about fractions because - SURPRISE - I'm **t a teacher. Children need time to just enjoy their childhoods or is that just for the weekends . . . although we also do homework on Sundays.
So, after consulting a tutor and a therapist, Bunmi sent an email to Maya's teachers that let them k**w she wasn't going to allow her daughter to get wrapped up in the pressures of unnecessary homework (https://www.popsugar.com/moms/How-Create-Homework-Routine-Kids-42978176) any longer.
She's **t yet certain how the school will react but is prepared to homeschool if necessary. She'll have to hire a tutor and find a group of parents doing the same thing, "but I have ** choice at this point," she wrote.
"We all want our children to grow up and succeed in the world. While I believe in education, I don't believe for one second that academics should consume a child's life. I don't care if she goes to Harvard one day," she said. "My kid needs to be a kid."
أكثر... (https://www.popsugar.com/moms/Bunmi-Laditan-Post-About-Being-Done-Homework-43471296)