re: #30 Bob Levin

I call that semi-homeschooling. It’s gets harder the older they get, more homework, more extracurricular demands. You end up spending quite a bit of time waiting for your ten minutes of teachable moments, which cannot be scheduled.

Going back to Obdi’s article and the personal responsibility of the kids - one thing my daughter always knew was that she was to get her projects and her homework done; we would provide assistance in the form of materials, a place to spread out as much as she needed/wanted when doing her homework (I didn’t have a dining room for 18 years, it became her homework room, plenty of space) - and we would call out the questions for practice tests, or flash the flashcards (though she learned to use powerpoint as her “flashcard” system, which worked well as the typing of the questions and answers was a form of study).

It was a combination of our expectations and her own determination to do things herself, but we never had to follow-up to see if homework was done, and it was rare that we had to spend more than 10 or 15 minutes helping her. These habits have stayed with her, and she has done very very well in her college studies, all on her own. Very well.