How shall I answer my child?

Maybe you looks too relax in your home. As my job requires me to refresh my knowledge to come up with the world trend, I do have to study after work, at least two hours in the evening. I think you may read some books or learn a new language, so that your children will see how hard you are on your study.

Hahaha... I am the one who told my son "Doing homework? Woohoo, I am so happy it is over for me. No school, no homework!" Then my son will do sad and funny face to me. I told him everyone have to go through and learn as much as possible when they are young. I also tell him the practical aspect that he can applies the subject he learns to real life scenario later in working / business life.

If it is possible, make him watch the movie ABAKADA Ina. It is about a woman who chose not to continue with her study because of their hard situation when she was still a child/studying. But later on realized how important education is. Because she can't read, she gave the wrong medicine to her sick child. I do not know if it is applicable to your child but have learned a lot from that movie.

I'd reply, "I'm lucky? You're lucky they let you finish your work at home! If daddy doesn't finish his work at the office; they don't let him take it home, and they don't even let him come to the office to finish it the next day!"

Haha cute baby ! Tell him that doing assignment is part of being a student . That a child can't be called student if he doesn't make an assignment. Tell him also that doing assignment can make him more genius and famous in school. Kids are so fragile , we need to be very careful in dealing with them.

Hi friend, my daughter also make statement like your son. In the first time I also answer like you, but I see she is not satisfy with my answer. The next day, when she has a lot of homework, she say the statement again, I try to make different answer. I tell her" You are a student, so your duty is do your homework, mom is a mother, so mom should work to get money..., you and mom have duties although they are different...are you understand? after I say that she is satisfy. Maybe you can apply my answer if you think it is suitable with you. Have a nice day.

Ah yes, but then he doesn't have to take care of the family, the home, pay the bills, make sure all the washing is done, the shopping is bought, the house is looked after, and the list goes on, by the time you have finished, he will think that homework is the better choice! A lot of children don't realize that adults were once children and had to do the same things then, that are asked of them now!

My daughter did said these words to me before..and often tell her, i would rather trade homework with my current work right now and she would see how tired i am..so i guess that kept her studying more.

Hi, If possible, give him live examples of people who didn't give much importance to their studies and ended up as unsuccessful people. Similarly, show him live examples of people who are successful and have top job because they gave importance to their studies and homework. You can also offer him rewards (chocolates or extra time to play) in lieu of the time he dedicates towards studies/homework. With small kids that works like a wonder.

It's a hard question. You can talk about that you practically have homework every day, because you have to do the finances, arrange family stuff etc. ... but you can't really understand how hard something is until you have to try dealing with that. You copuld try, though, tell him that doing some homework is not that bad compared to adults' chores... he may not understand it, but that would be a nice answer.

ask him if he would like to swap roles and he can cook ,clean, shop,pay bills,garden wash the car etc or he can do half an hour of homework hmmm I wonder which he will choose

Then just say what's on your mind. You must say that during your childhood days, you also do what he is doing. He needs to finish his homework because it is a must. If we let children to do their homework, we are letting them to realize and exercise their sense of responsibility.

Today's children become very sharp and they have such type of questions in everyday's life which i can't answer. If you have your school notebook then you can show your child that its my home work when you are child and show your result card to your child also.

Politely inform hum who puts the food on the table the roof over his head and the education and clothing he receives. This all costs money. Tell him you have to work for all that.

' you can delve into your past or tell him that if he finishes his home work on time, it will be useful in two ways; one is that he will be free to play ; second is that he will get good grades and once he is old like you he too won't have any home work[this will be just like his argument which says how lucky you are].He will also be lucky when he is as old as you are.

Haha,why not you just read some book with your child in the same time?I think if your kid see you doing this he will have no excuse for his homework,and I think you kid will have more motivation to do his homework in this way.

I think that your son needs to know the importance of doing homework. It might be helpful to even motivate him about why students are assigned homework. Anyway, you can tell him homework is something that will help him in the future when he becomes older. Because once he's out in the real world, there are more difficult things than homework that adults do every day. Basically, it's good for him to be exposed to homework, which will help him develop critical thinking skills needed for the future.

hahaha cool kid. .... make a what if scenario What if I will do your homework and you cook, clean and wash? or what if you don't go to school so you don't need to do your homework anymore? but you can't see your friends.. you will just stay inside the house and do my chores instead.

You can tell him that you do other work and that grown ups have different type of homework. Explain him that everyone has his tasks to do and his task now is to do his homework go to school and have good grades.