My entire academic life, I was enrolled in schools wherein homework was always there. As a child, I hated it. Why do you have to bring home something from school when home is supposed to be your free time? Why does it have to ruin your play time? Why does it take so much of my free time? Worse, I hardly have any me time left for myself because of homework. These are some of the questions I would often ask to myself about the damned homework that accompany me home.
Homework is boring. Homework is tiring. Homework is the devil's work.
Those 3 statements alone could tell you how I despised homework as a kid. But nevertheless, I had to do them. Every single one of them so that I could attain better marks in school.
As I grew older, I became smarter - a smart-ass that is. I knew that I had enough of homework and had to work around it. Instead of doing homework, I chose to wake up early and rush to school. Wait for the others to arrive and voila, I get to copy homework from my peers. There are even times where I wake up late and copy as hurriedly as I can before the teacher finds out that I copied all of them. Yes, it came to that point. Something a child generally feels when receiving the assignment, LAZY.
That was then, what about the now. Have my views on homework changed?
Matter of fact it did. Ever since I had our little Carlisle, my focus towards him and how he gets to know his environment has been very substantial. We have noticed how quick he is in picking up stuff from school, the house, or whatever resource that he has to deal with. He is quick to learn and very witty at that. And now, I am eager for him to learn more and more about the world around him.
As he will grow older, he will have plenty of opportunities to learn. One of those avenues is through homework.
Despite having said all of those sad things about homework, why should I support that for my kids?
After all those years and this sudden realization being a parent, I believe that the homework is an avenue with which we educate, not only the students, but as well as the parents to be able to work together harmoniously.
We have to let everyone realize the impact of homework as a family, as a learning process for the child. We have to let the parents understand that homework is a means where a child and parent can bond over, working hand in hand into completing the task.
The only question left would be HOW?
As a teacher, we normally allocate points or scores over the homework being done at home. That thought enables the parents to act on the homework on their own, securing points for their children, ultimately cheating a better score without the child learning. This totally defeats the purpose of homework right?
So... Homework should be done for the parents. As a parent, I find this hard to do, filling these in apart from the already busy schedule that we have. But after having become a parent, juggling work and kid, I've come to realize that our child needs more of our attention than any other. Would we rather have our kids stare at the television or play computer games all night long? Or should we rather bond with them over education, positive debates, or even incorporate them into recreational activities together as a family.
Homework is not as bad as we think...
Homework will definitely cut your child's fun time by a couple of minutes to an hour. But if we look at it on a different perspective, it actually gives you and your child some family time from a couple of minutes to an hour. Our kids will not be kids forever, and there will come a time where they will no longer care for your tutoring or your family time. While we still have this slight bit of moment to save every opportunity, memory and bond that we can share with our children, why can't we just cherish that?
So, I guess I'm PRO homework. What do you guys think?
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