I am so not cut out for the Parenting a School-Aged Kid thing.
At all.
I can't make it through a parents email without rolling my eyes.
Parent Association Meetings lead to violent thoughts floating through my mind. (Most of them involve me scheming ways to make that parent who never stops talking shut up. No matter how boring the meeting is, the rudeness of that person talking through it is always worse.)
And then there's homework.
Yes, homework.
Alexis is in kindergarten, and yet she has homework every single night. Is it just me, or is that crazy? I seem to remember kindergarten as being all fun and games, unless we're talking about that whole shoe tying thing because I couldn't seem to figure that out. When I was the last man standing on Can't Tie My Shoes Island, there was nothing fun about it. Still, other than that, kindergarten was FUN.
Alexis' kindergarten is nowhere near as cool as mine was. Or maybe it is and they just make the kids take the torture home. That could be the case. Anyway, every Monday she brings home a folder filled with worksheets that have to be completed and returned on Friday. She also has a weekly reading list to complete and a big monthly project to work on. I don't actually mind the reading list and projects because those tasks aren't the most painful tasks on earth. Her homework is, though.
So, four nights per week -- homework. Super lame, boring, annoying homework. And don't even ask Alexis what she thinks about it. She's even more frustrated by it than I am.
Most of the time it takes all of fourteen seconds for her to finish each worksheet, but that's only after she has spent half an hour whining and crying about how she doesn't want to do homework. It would be easier to fight through the whining if I thought the homework was a good use of her time, but I don't. Most of the worksheets are things that she's known how to do for years now. I once mentioned that fact to her teacher and Alexis ended up with "special" homework that was actually challenging (and interesting!) for a while, but it took far longer than fourteen seconds to complete. So when her teacher suddenly started slacking on the specialized homework, I let it go. I'd rather the worksheets be boring and quick than worthwhile but time-consuming.
Because, you know, I'm not cut out for the Parenting a School-Aged Kid thing.
I'm starting to understand why some parents do homework for their kids. I could knock that stuff out in under a minute. Alexis would be happy, I would be happy, everybody wins!
Homework sucks. Especially in kindergarten.
