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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Parenting

Seattle Schools Community Forum: Parenting:


Parenting

A couple of good parenting ideas have come across my desk.

One is an article from Parent Map on how to get your children to do their homework.  This mom made a "homework hour" for the entire family.  (I assume she got out her bills, etc. to work on while they did schoolwork.)

Any thoughts/tips from you about how you handle homework?  Do you feel like your child is getting too much/too little/not effective homework or is it just right?

The other story is from a mom's blog - Janel Burley Hofmann about an iPhone contract with her 13-year old son.  It is an 18-point contract full of some good stuff.    What I like is that she is blunt - about how he might use it and