Homework:
I’m Mere’s primary homework person; helps that it’s mostly stuff that I’m great at (english, math, social studies). I take a lot of care with her on it to (1) encourage her to think, and (2) encourage her to look at things creatively and logically.
My dad helped me with math as a kid - but at that time, they were switching to the ‘New Math’, and while he was very good with math, the whole point of view of ‘New Math’ was one that he had serious trouble wrapping his head around. For literature and history, it was my mom - she got a great love of that and language from her big brother, and passed it on to me.
They had major weak spots; mom was hopeless at math, and dad was hopeless at anything non-1950s tech and not math (didn’t have the education for it). And at a certain point, I so zoomed past their levels - and I had been self-educating since I was 3 to a greater or lesser extent…so, it would have been nice to get real long term help, but…
This sort of thing may happen to you if you’re a lot less involved with the process (somewhat NSFW in language) - and besides that - why have kids if you’re not willing to put forth the effort?
