About Last Night

[RUDisney]

When it came time, after dinner, to take out homework, my DS realized that he didn't have his. He either left it at school, or took it out at my Mom's house and left it there. Mom was at work, so he talked to my Dad. Dad couldn't find his folders.

We called around to some of his classmates. No one has a fax machine in their house and claimed not to have a scanner to email it to us. I'd have whited out their answers so he could have done his own work.

Instead of having him not do anything, I made up a language worksheet for him, a math sheet and he read a book that was just a little above his reading level, so it was challenging.

He told me that I was mean and that his teacher was nicer because she didn't give him as much work to do as I did. I told him that is the price he has to pay for forgetting or losing his work.

I wrote the teacher a note to explain what we did in lieu of her assigned homework and he took everything in for her to see.

What would you have done? He just started 2nd grade and it really isn't like him to forget or lose anything.

I'm interested in seeing what his teacher has to say about this.

 

[aahmom1]

I probably would have gone to the school and got the forgotten homework. BUT I also would have told him that this will not be an every day thing, and he needs to remember his own work.

 

[browneyes]

My dd is notorious for forgetting her homework assignment at school. Her school has a behavior system where their behavior for the day is given a color. Her teacher demoted her 2 colors for forgetting her homework the first time. She'd NEVER been demoted 2 colors for anything and it put her into shock. She's forgotten her homework 1 time since then, but she was able to finish it before class started.

My ds is in 2nd grade, too. He wishes he could forget his homework at school.

 

[nkjzmom]

This happened one time last year for DS (2nd grade also!). I did the exact thing you did...made my own up for him. His teacher had a deal with them for ONE forgotten homework night, so he could've just used that, but she accepted the work he did.

 

[Toby'sFriend]

I've done exactly what you did before.

You can't get into our classrooms after 4:30pm, so there really isn't any returning to the school for us.

 

[snoopy]

DS did this on the first day of school. The child is extraordinarily forgetful.

I took him to school early the next morning and had him ask his teacher for another copy. Never thought about making up my own homework assignment, might just do that next time.

 

[aprincessmom]

Wow...we are lucky here. DD's school (she's just starting 2nd grade today) gives out homework packets on Mondays and the whole week's assignments are in there and not due until Friday. They have one math assignment and one writing/spelling assignment per night and are allowed to work one ahead. This way if you have after school commitments too you don't have to worry about missing the homework one night.

If it had been me I probably would have told DD that she needed to explain what happened to the teacher and ask for another copy of the homework so she could do it that night along with the current assignment and suffer the consequences.

But I'm also a mean mom

 

[RitaZ.]

I have done the same thing. I think that teachers appreciate it when parents do this. For one thing the teacher knows that the parent is aware of the forgotten homework, and also teaching the child responsibility for bringing the homework home.

BTW, when I read the title of your thread, I thought your post was going to be about the movie with Demi Moore and Rob Lowe.

 

[dcgrumpy]

My mother used to do that whenever I forgot my homework.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

I would have made him do the homework a day late with a note to his teacher.