Karen obediently goes to her room, starts her math homework, and crunches through 10 division problems while her mother stares over her shoulder, watching every calculation. You can do better than that. Tears well up in Karen's eyes. When her homework finally is done, many of the answers are her mothers. Again, everyone goes to bed frustrated and exhausted.
Homework is the heart of struggles in many families.
It does not have to be the cause of continuous strife, however. No one ever died from doing homework. Don't let your children tell you differently. There are ways to make it less stressful, more productive, and significantly more efficient. That's easier said than done.