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?
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As hard as __75__ may be, sit back 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. 1 I0 I# E+ A3 @' Z0 C/ f5 d
2 i& a: x- ^. v; p( ^$ ?" r 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. + p) l) Z, R4 k* v: \0 v7 ]
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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 a 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.
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