How do you balance your kids social/tv time with studying?

My son was a tough one to keep on track, he had learning problems and pretty much hated school. I had to talk with all of his teachers at least once a week. You know that there are problems, when you have the principal, assistant principal and all teachers on speed dial. that was my life and that was what it took to keep him on track. Sports was my leverage. If you do not do your work, you don't play. But I was real mean, He would go to the games and sit on the bench (his coaches agreed with this tactic) but not play. Being that he was a good player, he realized sitting on the bench hurt his team and him.

The main thing is homework is done as soon as they come home. They are only in Kindergarten & 2nd grade. There is not a lot of homework or studying at this stage. They also do not do a lot of socializing. They do take after school programs. That is never more than an hour a time a few days a week at most.

1. All the family members go out only once a week. 2. TV time of 1 hour per day is alloted to my son 3. He has to be uptodate in his homework. (monitored by my wife) 4. He is having excellent memory power and hence there is no need to read 3 or 4 times the same portion of study. 5. We are in touch with school authorities and we get the feedback. 6. We generally do not entertain guests on week days so there is no disturbance. 7. Games and sports there is fixed time.

how do I keep them on track....by being honest with them, sharing my life story with them and the consequences of my actions like NOT staying in school and how that has affected my life as an adult...and by praising them and keeping up to date with them on how their lives are goin, how school is going, and so on..I have a huge interest in them and their lives and I am very proud of how well, all things considered, they are doing and I make sure they know it... I always ask if they have homework and if they do they usually decide to get it out of the way right away but sometimes they'll wait til after dinner which is fine so long as it gets done and done properly....Luckily I can trust them to be on the ball when it comes to school without my having to hound them...