honkytonk

Thank you so much for all your comments. I have definatly given off the wrong atitude towards it by trying to sympathise with him, saying how rubbish it is that he has to do it, so I'll try a change of approach and definatly try the reward for doing it without complaining! I do think he's too young for homework but on the brightside at least he'll be used to it when it comes to year 7?! Thanks again,

I wondered if anyone can give me a bit of advice to help me deal with our homework hell! Getting my 8 year old son to do his homework is an absolute nightmare. Most nights we have a great big scence about it. I don't blame him for not wanting to do it, and I wish he didn't have it, I'd rather he was outside playing, but he gets it from school so he needs to get on with it. He absolutely hates getting into trouble at school so that is a bit of a driving factor to get it done, but why do we have to have a massive scence before he'll get on with it? Also, when he does do it, he has no interest in checking it or making it look ok - he takes no pride whatsoever in it. As I say, I feel bad for him but I could really do with some advice on how to try and make our evenings a bit easier. And the summer hols too as he has work set for the holidays. Think I'll go mad if this keeps going on!! Thanks in advance!