As parents, we too have thought “Oh no!” when our kids brought work home to complete over the break. For students, it can mean tears, sour attitudes and plain old avoidance. For parents, it can ...

I would like to offer some advice about one of the most frequent problems presented to me in over 30 years of clinical practice: battles over homework. I have half-jokingly told many parents that if ...

Mom-of-four Amanda was looking through her daughter’s math homework when she came across the problem that had her baffled.

Brooklyn mom Liat Tamam (from left) sends daughters Rosa, 6, and Astrid, 3, to a no-homework school. Annie Wermiel For Liat Tamam, the daily, tearful battles over homework started soon after her ...

As a mom of five kids, I’ve heard it all: “Homework should be banned!” my son recently complained, throwing his backpack on the floor. And honestly, I get it. Over the past decade of parenting, I’ve ...

One mom is normally fine with homework, but the amount her son has been getting in his fifth-grade class has her seeing red. To get a second opinion before she went “full Karen,” as she warned she ...

“I think the best thing a parent can do is provide a routine schedule, as much as possible; quiet space for study; rules that shut down media for an allotted time; and availability for questions.