How do you get your child to do school work?

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My little sister who's 8 has had a hard time learning since Kindergarten. She is now in 2nd grade so this whining over not wanting to do school work is going on 3 YEARS!! !! Does your AS or NT child do this and if so how can we help her enjoy school work. She has had a hard time with reading/math all 3 years even WITH working with her on stuff. Any tips would be appreciated thanks WP parents.

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My daughter will not do any school work outside of school. I don't even try to get her to do homework. I've learnt that I'd stand a better chance of getting the sun to rise in the west.

Maybe she has learning disabilities and she finds it a struggle to do. So she tries and avoid it by not doing them. Does she have an IEP? Have your parents ever tried getting her tested for any learning difficulties?

With Billy, 10 year old aspie, we sit him down at the kitchen table after dinner and don't allow any other activities until he is either done or it is time for bed. If he messes around too long and is upset at not getting any play time, he is told too bad, he wasted it. If he doesn't do his homework, he loses privliges like computer time, video game time, or access to leggos.

He is usually pretty good about getting things done at home, but sometimes in school he will simply quit doing work because he doesn't feel like it. This also loses him time at his fun activities.

Ya I'm leaning towards a learning disability aswell but mom said after the whining/parent yelling which equals more whining. The 8 year old finished her work within 5minutes. (I tend to go out to see the fuss then later mom comes to tell me what happen) I'll bring up getting tested to her later. I know my mom has researched ADD for the 10 year old and strangely while both are adopted the 10 year reminds me of ME at her age and is rude much like myself but to my knowledge as of now she has friends etc. and no social issues and I haven't seen anything else but the rudeness like myself struck my curiosity.

When my son was young we used to turn his homework into games. If he finished spelling exercises for 5 words, for example, he could pick a word and I would have to act it out. Basically, break the homework into pieces and offer a reward or find something fun in it.

Another useful tool is setting homework by time instead of page. This works really well for kids who look at the homework and get anxious because they think it will take "hours." When you have permission from the teacher to use time limits, you get to tell the child, "no, it won't take hours, it will take 30 minutes. As long as you stay focused, once 30 minutes are up, I sign you out as done, even if there are exercises you haven't gotten to." It is a great way for children to learn to sit down and get started, and doing so they learn important work habits and get an accurate feel for how long homework takes.

Both my AS and NT kids have had trouble sitting down to do homework. By itself, it isn't much of an indicator. But figuring out what the roadblocks are and WHY the process is difficult can help.

Incorperate special intrests into it. For instance if it's a word problems such as "Sally had five lollypops and Sarah just gave her 3 gumdrops. How many peices of candy does Sally have now?" you can verbaly change it to something like "Miley Meerkat has 5 grasshoppers and Mayah Meerkat gives her 3 ants. How many insects does Myah Meerkat have now? I always found it boring because the characters in the problems were seen as random strangers to me and why do I care about them? My mom would put me and my pets/friends into the problem instead.