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Anyone w/kids, do you all have the same problem I've got...  I can't believe the amount of homework my kid gets...  He is only in 4th grade, and it is a trip...  It's pretty bad when I have to do searches on the internet to help him w/his homework...  Last week I had to look up stomata...  I was like what the heck is a stomata... Not only is this a spelling word (which is pretty easy in comparison), but a vocabulary word...  Good Lord, by next year I am going to have to hire someone just to help him w/his homework...

I tell you what, I did not have this much homework when I was kid.... 

He brings home a book, a 164 pages....  I am like, Anthony, that's awefully long for you to be reading for a book report.  He's like no mama, this is a 3.6 book (which means a 3rd grade level), well okay I am done... wow...

Want me to ue it in a sentence?

What Stomato wid you ?

just wait tell the 9th and 10th grade you will need to go back to school yourself just to help them out

actually, we wrote this....


I don't know what stomata means.

Got away with it too....  But next time I will ask you... 

Mine are all home schooled which is even harder. My 11 year old is doing the virtual school. She has to upload, scan, download, convert files, etc. She's now more computer proficient than most adults.

we did the home school thing also the problem with this is when its time to be a teen it hard to make friends they are kinda not fitting in in school like cheerleading,football,volleyball,track so we went to a private school and its been the best thing we ever done it nice a be smart back fitting in is very important also my son has been going to a private school for 4 years hes now playing JV football as kicker hes the school hero kicking 40+ yards Field golds my little girl is 15 and 2 years at the school shes captin of the cheer team good luck just my 2 cents

It's not hard for them to be better at computers then we are. They are raised with them not like us. Here is a little computer poem for us older people.

A computer was something on TV
From a science-fiction show of note
A window was something you hated to clean
And ram was the cousin of a goat

Meg was the name of my girlfriend
And gig was a job for the nights
Now they all mean different things
And that really mega bytes.

An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano.

Memory was something that you lost with age
A CD was a bank account
And if you had a 3-in. floppy
You hoped nobody found out.

Compress was something you did to the garbage
Not something you did to a file
And if you unzipped anything in public
You'd be in jail for a while.

Log on was adding wood to the fire
Hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
And a backup happened to your commode.

Cut you did with a pocket knife
Paste you did with glue
A web was a spider's home
And a virus was the flu.

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper
And the memory in my head
I hear nobody dies in a "computer crash"
But when it happens most wish they were dead.

Yea, it's simple, we had no computers...  Well atleast not me...  Well that may show my age...  But still, they get alot of homework... ???

I am with you on this one.  Our oldest daughter is in the advanced academics, 4th grade.  She had two hours worth of homework tonight, plus there are two different projects going on right now.  She is reading on a 6th grade level, but the reading is not the problem, it is just the sheer amount of homework (of course it has been this way with her since 1st grade). Our other daughter is in 1st grade and was just moved from the advanced class to mainstream, and I am thankful for it!

shoot, I am doing that midlife change stuff.  Headed back to school.  I looked at my husband and informed him that school creates more work than my job ever did!

I don't know if I can say this here, but I will try.....  As a woman... Midlife sucks....  Just my opinion..... ;)

 ::)  only if you let it kiddo!  Me, I am having fun with it.  Except I dont seem to have fun for as long as I used to.  Bedtime comes sooner.  :-\

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It's definitely a lot of work, but they'll all be better off for it.

I agree about the socialization of home schooled kids. we have ours in sports, church, awanas, karate, and about every other activity we can schedule in. They went to private school for a while, but so far the home school is working out better in many ways. it's nice to be able to take trips or vacations any time without messing up their school.