Comments on: Too Much Homework

By: the weave

the weave — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:24:03 +0000

You’ll be glad she did all that homework once you’ve had a chance to read her phd dissertation.

By: Daphne

Daphne — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:57:01 +0000

love you Jody! thanks.
Well, If I had a nickel for every “wanna be View” audition I’ve been on. A big part of the problem is casting. they one a woman of every color– usually all size zeroes. They don’t pick woman who have different accomplishments, an author, sports, what have you. And they never get past a pilot.
It’s harder than it looks to have the convo they have on the View or Regis and Kelly.

I sort pooped out on pitching my own ideas a while ago. maybe I will find my steam.

By: Jody Reale--Zwaggle

Jody Reale--Zwaggle — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:05:45 +0000

You and your mom have great chemistry. Will you please do everyone with a TV a favor and pitch a daily talk show to the networks that competes with The View?

By: Daphne

Daphne — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:30:52 +0000

thanks Attilla and Kristie, ( good stats mom!) Hard to buck the trend, but it’s god to be aware of it. I’m no genius, but I don’t remember any homework till 8th grade. I mean except, color in a the states in the map type one sheets once and a while. I graduated from college.

By: Kristie

Kristie — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:13:33 +0000

I’m with your mom! I am a “retired to motherhood” early childhood educator and mother of a 19yr old college student, 16yr old hs student and almost 3 yr old. I taught kindergarten at a small Catholic school for 6 years and hate the way K-5 is becoming first grade etc.
Childhood is too short as it is….what is the rush!
As far as homework goes, amen AtillaTheMum!
Say the kid gets home 3ish and has a 8 to 9ish bedtime, they have precious few hours to eat, bathe, spend time w/ family, do homework, participate in any extracirriculars and horror of horrors, play w/ their friends, like a good American citizen!
I could rant about this for days, oh and scr*w no child left behind. Once again an example of politicians legislating education, it doesn’t work.
By the by, I love your blog and look forward to my daily visit!

By: AttillaTheMum

AttillaTheMum — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:37:39 +0000

I completely agree with your mom concerning the correlation between obesity and excess amounts of homework! Sure, more “screen time” plays a part too (i.e., television and computer), but researchers at the University of Michigan found that 6- to 9-year-old children did more than two hours of homework a week in 1997, up from 44 minutes in 1981. Kids 9-12 were buckling down for more than 3 and a half hours, an increase of about an hour since 1981. (San Francisco Chronicle) And that was data from 1997! What parent can even fit in free play time or sports AND make sure their children get to sleep at an early hour? Ah well, it’s a battle each of us as parents will have to take up in our individual schools, I’m afraid.