Yet according to the education and parenting expert Alfie Kohn, the author of “The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing,” a close look at all the research available contradicts this The homework in question is typically worksheets - copying or coloring letters and numbers and name-writing practice, proficiencies that are required for some magnet schoolĮntrance “assessments.” And while most parents agreed that the idea of preschool homework was absurd, most also went along with it anyway. Louis suburbs, are looking at a range of kindergarten options, from private The parents I spoke with, who send their children to paid preschool in places like Chicago, the five boroughs of New York, New Jersey and the St.

Most preschoolers may not be lugging backpacks of books yet, but when I reached out to friends and friends of friends via a Facebook post of my own, I found a diverse group of parents all over theĬountry completing - or attempting to complete - nightly homework with their wiggling preschoolers, ostensibly to “prepare” them for kindergarten homework. Jennifer’s story had to be a wild aberration, far from the norm - one child, one family, one He’s not ready and neither am I!” As a parent, I wasn’t ready either. I know he’s not ready for the discipline, but I feel compelled to make him turn in hisĪssignments. “I watch him slumped over our coffee table, fake crying and moaning, begging to play. Jennifer said that nightly homework assignments sent home with her preschoolerįrustrated both of them. My youngest son has yet to enter preschool, and when my older child was there, he spent more time in “circle” than on worksheets. “Oh, yeah?” replied a friend of said friend in the comments, a New A Facebook friend recently posted her frustration with trying to get her third-grade daughter to sit down and do her nightly homework.

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