Homework: Week 1

There’s a new homework plan for my Future Farmboy and Girl.

On Monday we get one big pack of homework sheets. And all the work is due on Friday. I’m thinking this will be better than last year when we got homework randomly through the week.

This way, if we don’t procrastinate (and that’s a big IF), we should be more on top of things.

Then came time to sit down and get to work. Let’s just say the reaction from our little students was not what I expected.

My normally all business son wanted no part of homework, while my normally flittering, zero-attention-span daughter, got right down to it.

She loved homework so much, she finished the whole week in one sitting. Then today, she asked for more. We had to make something up for her to do.

He, on the other hand, went through a series of punishments (no Wii) and spent time in his room, until we accomplished our daily goal.

If anyone can share a recipe, here’s what I’d like to do: bottle my daughter’s enthusiasm, keep it for the day she turns on me; and have enough extra to spike my son’s milk.

Any ideas?