Homework blues

Adam starts to have homework this year. And boy, there are a lot! A page of maths, writings and some language skills. He'd usually brought back three books per day. At first Adam was thrilled with the homework. His status was elevated to almost the same level with Amri who had mountains of schoolwork. He gets to enjoy the same amount of attention during homework hours at night.

But the novelty soon wore off. Especially when Amri had lesser homework once he managed to catch up with new subjects at school and spent his spare time noisily constructing robots from his lego set. Adam complained, grumbled, sulked and one day refused to go to kindy. I, the most laid back mother in Klang Valley simply called his teacher and requested her to stop the homeworks. Which worked well for two days. Then Adam started to feel left out both at kindy and at home. To my surprise, he asked his class teacher for some homework. The equally surprised teacher promptly gave me a call to get an all clear.

I decided to meet his teacher in person instead. We sat down together with Adam and finally concluded that Adam was bored to death doing the repetitious dot to dot, ABC, 123. He had done all that last year. So now Adam brought back just one homework per day. Things like math, fill in the blanks with correct letters/words and the likes. He is happier with this arrangement and sometimes, when the mood strikes him, completed the homework by himself in the afternoon. Most of the times, he is just his playful self with short attention span. But the homework gets done. Sampai terkoyak rabak buku.

Well, I'm glad the way it turns out. Especially now that homework coaching falls under the category of nauseous activity. Not good.