I have a child problem, can you help me?

Question

My daughter is 8 years old and is very smart at calling out the answers to her math homework, but when it comes down to her sitting down to do the homework she comes up with all kinds of excuses not to complete the work. Then there is reading and answering questions and once again here comes the excuse's for the reason for her not to complete it. I am running out of patience with her, but homework is important. She knows the work,its the same everyday, reading comphension and math. I don't want her to fall behind but I feel she is just too lazy. Do you have any ideas to help me with my daughter and the homework time limit. She does get like 6 pages a day and really gets mad because she doesn't have enough time to play after school.

Answer 1

One thing that 'might' work is if you sit her down and say, "You know, I've noticed that you don't have enough time to play after school, and that makes me sad because I do so want you to have a happy childhood, and play is important after a long day at school. [conspiratorial grin] I've come up with an IDEA to help you have more play time! This is it: you are so smart that you can be SO zippy at doing homework. I think it takes you a long time because you are wanting to play, and I totally understand that, so I am going to help you with a SECRET on how to do it faster. This is it: I am going to set a timer for 10 minutes [or however long it should take her to do one page of homework] and when I say 'GO!' the timer will start, and I want you to put your eyes on your paper and start working at SUPER SPEED. Keep going! Don't put your pencil down and don't look up. You are gonna be SO SURPRISED at how fast this secret method works!" You might have to hover and say, "NO! Don't look up!" At any rate, she will probably complete the homework really quickly if she'll just keep working. You will probably have to stay there to keep her on task, but don't worry about that; she is really young yet and if you can teach her to keep at a task till it is speedily done, that will be a permanent help to her in life, and you are already spending time trying to get her to do her homework, so hopefully this won't take too much more of your time. If you sit her at the kitchen table then you can do things in the kitchen while she works.

Answer 2

My sister is 12 and has suffered from the same thing as your daughter since she was in elementary school. We have tried everything and here's what we found to be the best without medication:
When your daughter firsts gets home from school allow her to have a snack and some free time (between 30 minutes to an hour). Then get down to business! Let her decide which homework assignement she wants to do first and tell her that if she does not complain about it then she can have more play time when she has completed her homework. When my sister would complain my mom would find her chores to do instead of allowing her to play after her homework. This way it encourages your daughter to want to finish her homework and to not complain about it! I hope this works! Good Luck! Also, never be too quick to medicate a child- that can confuse everything. Sounds like she's just not having fun- give her something to work for! Little kids don't understand that homework is beneficial to them. However, when rewarded they start to enjoy completing their homework!

Answer 3

it sounds like she has a mild form of autism. Or you could make homework a game, say if she sits down and does it right after school she will earn a gold star, then you can keep track of it on a chart on the fridge, and the stars can add up to something big that she really wants, like say 50 stars equal a new barbie doll or whatever her favorite time is. You can also tell her that homework is non-negotiiable. she cannot get up until its done.

Answer 4

well, if she can call out the answers to her problems how bout just asking her the questions and writing down what she says?

also it may be too easy for her so she looses patience.

Answer 5

A.D.D maybe....