Hilary Duff Struggles to Help Son With Homework as She Stopped "Real" School in 3rd Grade

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Hilary Duff Struggles to Help Son With Homework as She Stopped "Real" School in 3rd Grade https://t.co/xviueP5l2B
- E! News (@enews) October 20, 2019

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Hilary posted on instagram about her troubles with helping son Luca with his 2nd grade homework

"This guy with his spirit and kindness. Homework is already no joke in 2nd grade. I stopped

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[wormsinthedirt]

I've commented about this before but my parents never helped me with my homework. I might have asked them a question here and there, but they definitely never sat next to me. Now parents spend are expected to spend hours a night working on homework with their kids. No wonder everyone's so depressed and anxious.

If I have kids I'll either homeschool them or send them to some kinds hippie school. I don't have time for this shit lol.

[meow_tan]

i graduated school in 2013, so i was in public school from 2000-2013 and we were constantly told, even at elementary level, that we should be spending an hour to forty five minutes per subject on homework

[cleanofslate]

lol my dad would sit next to me and smack me in the back of the head if i couldn't figure something out so i'm not sure which is better: no help or THAT help.

[wormsinthedirt]

aw <3

[parachuteending]

My dad would do that too and then he wonders why I have developed anxiety over maths

[vsufreshie011]

Chileee same. I knew your pain. My dad would hound me for hours about my homework/extra credit/studying. It wasn't until I reached high school that he finally eased off it. Probably cuz he couldn't understand wtf kinda schoolwork we were doing at that point lmao.

[kjendis5]

Same! My dad has a degree in math, even trough he knows pretty much everything in the field, he's not a educator. He actually torture me. I remember I had to write down "Pi=3,14" over 500 times in my books. He was basically "solve this", if it was wrong he startet to scream at me and throw books around and call me stupid. Did it work? Nope, it ended up with me taking the easy math in High school, so I could skip the others years.
Kinda strange, because he's a really liberal dad, didn't care about what I wanted to be, or how I did in the other subjects.
But I guess "knowing math is the definition of smartness".

[wormsinthedirt]

it would be instead of working, not in addition to, so it wouldn't be more time.

[thelxienoe]

Neither did my parents. But they had to help my younger brother. I could have, but it wouldn’t have worked, because one of the biggest parts of sitting with kids and “helping” them is actually making sure they get it done. I volunteer in a 4th grade class now and suddenly realized that that was the big maturity divide between kids. Sometimes they’ll say they don’t know how to do something (either as an excuse or for real), and then the parent either has to hope the kid brought home their notebook (most teachers in public schools have to give them some form of notes to use at home these days) or remember how to do the thing themselves. It doesn’t help when the building-block lessons leading up to a more complicated process seem convoluted from the outside in (like building a decimal number line and counting the spaces between numbers and then doing a weird form of division for the kid that can’t actually divide yet in order show how many parts of a whole your number line needs to show)

[green_monsterx]

my parents never helped me, either. they both were high school graduates and didn't really have the ability to help, tbh.

honestly, though, i have a masters degree and school was always v impt to me, but I had to stop tutoring a few years ago because the way they teach math in schools now is so fucking confusing and stupid that I just didn't have the patience to learn it, let alone teach kids how to solve math problems with 17 steps when it could easily be solved the "old" way in like four steps.

[rinacunt]

Same. I learned to be independent in hs. I never even had a tutored I just did stuff on my own. My parents had an elementary knowledge on things and i didnt get tutored so i had to rely on myself lol. I’m actually a litttle bit surprised at how coddled wealthy kids are

[green_monsterx]

i totally agree. my parents were, in general, just very hands off with my education lol. i grew up in NYC, so i think that also played a part in me just being a lot more independent and willing to do things on my own. i used to commute 90 min to my high school (woke up at 5:45a every morning) and i knew even as a 13 year old, my education was going to be what i chose to make of it. but i also know just who i am as a person played a lot into my self discipline bc i shared a room with my older sister and let's just say the hardworking and school-motivated gene passed her right on by lol

[artemis_a23]

My parents never helped me with my homework either, unless I specifically asked them about something I didn't understand, but it wasn't often. Neither I nor my siblings needed any help with school, so to me seeing parents actively doing homework with their kids is so strange. Kids should become responsible for their own work, if you are after them all the time, when are they going to develop their own sense of responsibility?

[lauraohlaura]

Yeah it's really weird for me how it's expected that parents spend a lot of time doing homework with their children. On a macro scale, obviously it leads to a huge disadvantage for lower income children whose parents work full time and can't afford to hire tutors

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