May 25, 2025 • 4 mins
Hayley struggles to get her kids to do their homework in the evenings, and poses the question; should kids be doing homework after a big day at school or should they be spending that time with their family?
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart
app All right, I want to.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Talk about something that's happening at my house every night,
and I'm already feeling anxious about it because it's Monday,
because well not, no, this is the easiest part of
my day. This is the easiest part. But I want
to talk about this because I think there's a lot
of parents, mums and dads, Cara's grandparents who who maybe
you are in the same boat, and maybe we can
help each other out talking about homework, right, yeah, homework.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Can't you anxious about something else that you had to
do at home tonight?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, this and it's this is a thing. It's this,
this thing that happens every day of I have ten
and a thirteen year old. But this is particularly with
my ten year old, who goes to school all day
and find school hard, like finds maths in English especially hard.
So by the end of the day his brain is fried, right,
(01:07):
so the last he wants to do his homework. I
am a very different person to him. So when I
was at school, I would rush home and do all
my homework and had to get an A plus and
would get anxiety if I didn't, and that's bad. You
don't want to be like that because that's too much
pressure on yourself. Yeah, okay, but it's where I struggle
because we have this massive fight. There's actual rage that
(01:28):
happens in my house at night, and families at that
stage by the end of the day, everyone's worked, everyone's tired.
You should be spending that time together and enjoying each
other's company rather than feeling that real rage of like,
just do your homework.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I know I wants to do homework. I'll go home
and play with my brother in the backyard. Yeah that
and play do homework.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But I think that has more of a benefit of
playing with your brother or doing sport or doing something together.
My thing is I I guess it's the battle I have,
And I don't want to compare our kids to anybody else,
but I worry, like for me, I don't want him
to be behind. So I'm like, I wish you didn't
have to do homework. And he does have a limited
(02:07):
homework because of dyslex here and things like that, which
is excellent. His school is excellent, but it still means
you still have to do like forty five minutes worth
of work, and here by that time there's nothing else.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't want homework, so I haven't.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, yes, I don't want homework, but also it's the
thing of how you get your kid to do it.
We will fight and go head to head and then
I'll end up doing it for him, and then there's
no point. It's like you're gonna go to school the
next day, and all these parents around Adelaide doing the
homework for their kids. There's no point in doing It's
just a waste of time in the family dynamic.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But can you not see any benefit to the homework?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I get why, I guess. I guess for me, I
did it because it's I mean, I guess it's great
because you're cementing what you've learned that day. But for
kids who really struggle, especially, I'm at this line of
like I could go and be his advocate and say
to the school, I don't think he should do homework,
because that does happen if you have learning like neurodivergent
children do. Obviously they have a different learning pattern, a
(03:05):
different way that their brain works. And sometimes they told
you do have to do homework. But then I have
these worries. I don't want him to be feel behind.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But is there not a benefit perhaps to you being
able to then go through what he's learnt at school
with him, because you know how he learns and you
know the best way into his brain. Yes, but personally
as his parents, Like for me, I didn't have those
learning difficulties, but I know that hearing it from my
dad or from my mum like can break down a
barrier that might have been learning it at school.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But getting him to do it is the hardest part,
Like literally will I will say mean things because and
things I regret because I just want him to sit
down and do his homework. So I'd love to know,
can you relate? I would loved for schools just to
have a blanket rule before year ten, no homework, Just
enjoy your night with your family. Don't you're ten, You're ten, eleven, twelve, Fine,
(03:56):
you're doing it like that's fine, but it's also setting
a precestent of what we do now. You're not supposed
to bring your work home with you. You do, you go home,
you clock off, and you be with your family.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It was like half an hour of work it's.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, but it's not. Some kids, like he's in year five,
it's normally like maybe forty five minutes an hour of
homework at night. That's a lot for a little brain
to come home and do it at night, and it
just causes this really bad dynamic in the family. We're
all fighting.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Do you share Hailey's frustrations out there? Adelaide thirty one
h two three? Can you relate to this?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And I would love to know if you have a
trick of how to get your kids to do homework
or did you go to the school and ask for
it to not happen and even from teachers.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
What are your thoughts? Yeah, maybe you love homework and
maybe you think it's a good thing and Hailey needs
to setch it up too.
I heard podcasts here more mix one or two point
three podcasts, playlists and listen live on the Free iHeart
app All right, I want to.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Talk about something that's happening at my house every night,
and I'm already feeling anxious about it because it's Monday,
because well not, no, this is the easiest part of
my day. This is the easiest part. But I want
to talk about this because I think there's a lot
of parents, mums and dads, Cara's grandparents who who maybe
you are in the same boat, and maybe we can
help each other out talking about homework, right, yeah, homework.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Can't you anxious about something else that you had to
do at home tonight?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, this and it's this is a thing. It's this,
this thing that happens every day of I have ten
and a thirteen year old. But this is particularly with
my ten year old, who goes to school all day
and find school hard, like finds maths in English especially hard.
So by the end of the day his brain is fried, right,
(01:07):
so the last he wants to do his homework. I
am a very different person to him. So when I
was at school, I would rush home and do all
my homework and had to get an A plus and
would get anxiety if I didn't, and that's bad. You
don't want to be like that because that's too much
pressure on yourself. Yeah, okay, but it's where I struggle
because we have this massive fight. There's actual rage that
(01:28):
happens in my house at night, and families at that
stage by the end of the day, everyone's worked, everyone's tired.
You should be spending that time together and enjoying each
other's company rather than feeling that real rage of like,
just do your homework.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I know I wants to do homework. I'll go home
and play with my brother in the backyard. Yeah that
and play do homework.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
But I think that has more of a benefit of
playing with your brother or doing sport or doing something together.
My thing is I I guess it's the battle I have,
And I don't want to compare our kids to anybody else,
but I worry, like for me, I don't want him
to be behind. So I'm like, I wish you didn't
have to do homework. And he does have a limited
(02:07):
homework because of dyslex here and things like that, which
is excellent. His school is excellent, but it still means
you still have to do like forty five minutes worth
of work, and here by that time there's nothing else.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't want homework, so I haven't.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, yes, I don't want homework, but also it's the
thing of how you get your kid to do it.
We will fight and go head to head and then
I'll end up doing it for him, and then there's
no point. It's like you're gonna go to school the
next day, and all these parents around Adelaide doing the
homework for their kids. There's no point in doing It's
just a waste of time in the family dynamic.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But can you not see any benefit to the homework?
Speaker 2 (02:43):
I get why, I guess. I guess for me, I
did it because it's I mean, I guess it's great
because you're cementing what you've learned that day. But for
kids who really struggle, especially, I'm at this line of
like I could go and be his advocate and say
to the school, I don't think he should do homework,
because that does happen if you have learning like neurodivergent
children do. Obviously they have a different learning pattern, a
(03:05):
different way that their brain works. And sometimes they told
you do have to do homework. But then I have
these worries. I don't want him to be feel behind.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
But is there not a benefit perhaps to you being
able to then go through what he's learnt at school
with him, because you know how he learns and you
know the best way into his brain. Yes, but personally
as his parents, Like for me, I didn't have those
learning difficulties, but I know that hearing it from my
dad or from my mum like can break down a
barrier that might have been learning it at school.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But getting him to do it is the hardest part,
Like literally will I will say mean things because and
things I regret because I just want him to sit
down and do his homework. So I'd love to know,
can you relate? I would loved for schools just to
have a blanket rule before year ten, no homework, Just
enjoy your night with your family. Don't you're ten, You're ten, eleven, twelve, Fine,
(03:56):
you're doing it like that's fine, but it's also setting
a precestent of what we do now. You're not supposed
to bring your work home with you. You do, you go home,
you clock off, and you be with your family.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It was like half an hour of work it's.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
No, but it's not. Some kids, like he's in year five,
it's normally like maybe forty five minutes an hour of
homework at night. That's a lot for a little brain
to come home and do it at night, and it
just causes this really bad dynamic in the family. We're
all fighting.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Do you share Hailey's frustrations out there? Adelaide thirty one
h two three? Can you relate to this?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And I would love to know if you have a
trick of how to get your kids to do homework
or did you go to the school and ask for
it to not happen and even from teachers.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
What are your thoughts? Yeah, maybe you love homework and
maybe you think it's a good thing and Hailey needs
to setch it up too.
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