1958-05-24 — Page 13

Homework -and why

I say

'Keep it!'

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BY AMANDA MARSHALL

On the vexed

cf

ND

question now again comes summer time when Should Parents Help, she said "Too much back-scut driving the living is easy

for

isn't a good thing-but purents everyone except the school can be a Kroat help over age martyr to homework, donkey-work such as hearing be a problem and chuined to irregular verbs irregular verbs,"

"There were two hellish years the eldest to start with when. had to begin homework-the. bitter unfairness of iwe all: haled it but now it's ceased to all they're self-trained.

in the long light evenings,

"The eldest one, still Jean MacGibbon, wife of

his own, times and savagely aware that

ilterary agent and mather of school, chooses every other living soul is three children, two at univeralty for doing it, up to any hour, railer he's played his records whacking tennis balls and and one still at school. also and practised that awful machine konfing about in punts. raid her husband had done a

good deal nt irregular-verb he's learning the trombone-

A good, sunny summer is drill in his time, but at least one no, It's the oboe and the youn

of her children had never to

a thing dreaded by parents, much as shown her uny home

homework-ridden for the work, let alone asked for help. Accond time in their lives

and still unreconciled to it.

My own personal experience

Working-tips

at

get comes in and sits down right away and does the stuff so

that we can all brenthe."

Joan Trimble, the pianist and composer, married to n of three doctor, and mother

she children at school, satd thought a lot of parents worried too much about their children She felt that homework was nasty, brutish, and anything... absolutely unavoidable, and sald

homework.

of humework was exhaustive,

and, as I now remember it,

but short, building up to that all her children had simply KOUT BOR ices to do hls marathon sessions at fairly got on with it-"if things ever regular intervals just before seemed too heavy, we spoke to the school and the child drop- ped a subject."

major examinations,

Crowded

among the family. As far as help goes, we try to help him to help himself show him how in spite of my untender

to look things up, or explain memories of the sheer slog and

She raised same interesting something he may not have of the the feeling

bitter in woriting-tips

understood." for homework Justice of it nil, that sro Ho troubled parents "If possible, inseparable from homework, I give the children a room each still do not see how the beastly

with n fire and a good light, business can possibly be avoided and give them something to cal -speelbilly in these fiercely before they start. competitivo days of The Bulge.

In boarding-schools, "Get them to clear weekend" prep is supervised, children are faster and Homework on Saturday mor- Inclined to work ing. Don't expect children with dawdle leas, but the help factor exams ahead to give too much is never altogether climinated help in the house. Explain to (I once had a very reasonable

Watch them

"

where

I asked the opinion of a younger children why one of the neighbour at the next desk who privato tutor with a lifetime's family may be getting speciaj used to work out all her algebru experience of teaching, and she. concessions at these times. Am in a good clear round hand do homework more visible at three foot on a clear

mave me one very interesting children

TCGSon for the necessity of easily and willingly if their ufternoon in exchange for my La-time handy Gallle War crib, and I homework: "Without it, many mother is there from

this helping-hand children would not concentrate onwards.not necessarily in the can't fool

system will ever dio).", at all during clase." She was room, just somewhere about,"

not apocially in favour of

banishinat children 10 An

upstairs study.They loole out

of the window, think about

something else, wasto far too

Essential

much time. Bettor to have -John Coates. tho

The real problem. Is' often a big family jammed into too few rooms which have, to be shared with a television set and, morna, sort of, social life, DOWRYDE· novelist, - (limited, for the parenting Mana

them dowINTAINS somewhere father or four sons who have all for

where there's someone coming attended the same London day But abolish homematic-Do, I in and out frog Uma tá unie, school, has learned to be sheet.

to keep say cyd-on, whether it's hak about homeworkand, also kelly, getting dono.”

feel it to be essential,

almply can't see, how you can cram the wikin of échication.

into the hours at school

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