When parents feel frustrated by homework

Dread dealing with your child's homework? Try using this expert's tip.
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Kathryn Lee from Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence offers ideas on how to handle homework stress.

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Think you’re frustrated? Watch this child explain how homework makes him feel.

Try any or all of these tips 7 helpful tips to get homework done with a minimum of tears.

Or maybe these 7 tips will work better for you and your child.

Deborah Tillman, known as “America’s Supernanny,” shares her homework strategies.

Here’s how Raising Happiness author and child development expert Christine Carter responds when her kids say, “I hate homework!”

What does research say? Does homework really help?


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