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How to Help Your Child
Manage Homework
1.  Help your child organize the 3  S's: Space, Stuff and Schedule.    Disorganization will turn 40 minutes of Math, History and Science into two hours of blood, sweat and tears.

2.  Ask your child to review his/her assignments with you often.  Especially in the middle or upper   grades assignments must be managed over time, so be sure your child plans the work and works the plan.

3.  Emphasize that your child's schoolwork is the #1 priority.  Continued participation in  extracurricular activites, a part-time job, and/or leisure pursuits are to be worked in around            completion of regular homwork and other assignments.

4.  Check your child's work - not every night, but often enough so that he/she knows that you might and that you care.

5.  Insist that he/she redoes sloppy work, but don't correct mistakes.  Teachers need to know 
what the students don't know.  
TIP
If your child is overwhelmed with too much homework, check with the school to see if there is a homework policy that teachers must follow.  Ask the teacher how their assignments fit into the policy.
WARNING
Don't fall into the habit of doing your child's homework for, or even with, him/her.  The process is just as important as the product.
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