I agree with sheep here. Please let us not confuse this lack of enthusiasm for helping out with homework with poor parenthood. I think that fathers should spend as much time as they can with the child but I disagree that the agenda for this time spent should be set by the teacher.

I hated homework and lucky for me neither of my parents gave a damn about it either. I however knew that it had to be done and I think that is an important lesson in itself. This is your work and it is your job to figure out how, when and how to get it done. I learnt to be responsible for my actions. So I learnt to do the work at school and only go home when it was done. My parents taught me the things that were important to them and I believe this was no less an education in fact I will argue that it was a more wholesome education.

Those who use the phrase, "if you value education, you will help your children with homework" have in my opinion a very narrow view of education. Is a child less educated when he comes home and joins his mother in preparing dinner than if he comes to sit to discuss quadratic equations? I would like to be able to teach my children what I want to teach them and not have teachers determine how I will be spending time with them.

What is homework anyway? Is it not exercises of what has been taught and understood? Why then would a child need help? If they need help it means either the teacher has not taught effectively or the child is not applying himself. I take that back. I will help with homework by buying the required study material and providing a quiet room. I will also institute painful consequences for undone homework. I think by the above I will have been very helpful.

This is an inaccurate survey but I will try it anyway. How many here in Wazua got help from their parents in doing homework? How many of you feel worse off for it? Is it a lack of faith in your child's ability to know that you did just fine without help but think that they will crash if you don't help them?

I really admire men who create time for their families and spend time with their kids. It's more of a sacrifice considering they spend most of the time out there trying to put bread on the table..

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@kusadikika
clearly the education system is faulty and sadly the foundation classes expecially. so why has it been around all these years?

Homework has become a tool to beat children with. in addition to homework, morning and evening prep in day schools is the reason kids go to school as early as 6AM.

Games double lesson and a P.E lesson per week - swimming sessions to YMCA, field trips to see division boundaries, animal orphanage and numerous other activities characterised my days in Primo - when we studied 7 subjects - and still did very well.

Nowadays in addition to the preps and homework, hakuna hata activities. Children are weak and can neither kick a ball nor 'kuruka bladaa' mitaani.

Truth be told, homework doesn't make a child brighter.

Fathers, whatever way this debate goes, time with family is key - it is part of divine assignment and you cannot and should not escape - or even diminish the significance of that quality time that you MUST give your family.