Here are ten realities of helping your child with their homework:
1. You resort to Google more times than you like
Usually for silly questions that common sense should have been able to help you with.
2. You realise you don’t actually know as much as you thought
And your child, in fact, knows a hell of a lot more than you...
3. You remember why you’re glad you’re finished school
Even primary school subjects are leaving you in a cold sweat!
4. You don’t really understand what they have to do in the first place
Why can’t they write a proper sentence – why does it have to be in code!
5. You wonder how you ever managed to get a job
You’re struggling with basic multiplication questions... Seriously like!
6. Your grammar skills are not quite up to scratch
Comma splice, semi-colon, hyphen – what are these things you have never heard of!
7. Things are a lot different these days
You’ll spend more time helping your child on the computer than actually looking through a book.
8. You’ll also realise just how much has stayed the same
Some of the books in your kid’s back are having you feel a little nostalgic for your own school days.
9. You realise none of the pens in your house work
Seriously. Not one.
10. It takes a lot longer than you anticipated
A good hour can pass before you have even realised!
Maybe it’s time to call in the experts!
