My son doesn't like to do homework after a long day of school. I also get worried about helping him because I learned to do the work a different way years ago. Education experts told me to give him ...

I sometimes help my grade-school-age daughters with their homework. I don't feel guilty about it, because there are nights when our family simply has other priorities. Like when my kids are exhausted ...

My 6-year-old daughter came home from school with a homework assignment this weekend. She's supposed to make a diorama of a frog habitat in a shoebox. That shouldn’t be too hard, right? A little moss, ...

Two and a half years ago, when my oldest child started kindergarten, I assumed that elementary school would bring a lot of changes for our family — a more structured weekday schedule, a larger social ...

If you’ve ever wondered exactly how many pictures of dolls there are in the American Girl catalogue, which magically arrives at our home addressed to our 6-year-old as if she had her own Visa card, I ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I think there are more meaningful ways to spend the after school hours. I typically tell teachers that our family won't be ...

“Mom! You don’t have to go over it. We go over it at school.” My second-grader was protesting my review of his completed math worksheet. His teacher required that a parent sign the daily homework ...