My daughter refuses to do her work at school. She's super smart, she's only suppose to know 200 site words by the end of the school year & she already knows 239. She's in first grade, we had problems in kindergarten but we also had problems with the school and made a switch last minute and she was able to pass. This year I'm concerned they may hold her back which may fustrate her more. She hates having to do stuff repeatedly, she hates writing with a passion, and refuses to complete any work at⦠read more
Go with your gut. You may be better at helping her than what the school can at this point. They may be putting too many demands on her. Are you familiar with Pervasive Defiant Disorder? Read "My Daughter is not Naughty" find it on Amazon. Sounds like Molly in the book. My daughter too wants to be in control. I started homeschooling her last year. She's never been happier.
hes in a special education class and his teacher is great with him. In her classroom she sets up different stations of work, ever 25 minutes they switch stations. He been doing better doing his homework in class
My son, 7 struggles with homework. we do a check mark system with him and been helping him do his home work. The social worker at my sons school says to give him breaks in between his homework, set a timer. It usually take him 3 hours to get his homework done, now we been doing the check mark system, timer, and having him do his homework when he get home from school, he isn't aloud to play or watch tv until his homework is done. Its been helping a lot now it usually takes him about an hour to do his homework. Also his home based therapist is looking into CLS services for him, where a person comes in and helps with his homework
Have you looked into a Montessori school?
How do you get them to do the gluten free or paleo diet of they refuse to eat meat and love the carbs?