a woman standing over her son as he does homework
The author and her son, both not pictured, hate homework time and sought expert help.
  • 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 freedom; we found colorful pens helped. 

We're more than three months into the school year, and even though we have our school-year routines established, there's still one contentious spot in my household: homework. My son is in fourth grade; he's been doing homework since he was in kindergarten and we still argue about it.