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<blockquote data-quote="wakeupcall" data-source="post: 256539" data-attributes="member: 2287"><p><strong>I'm so sorry you are going through this. I could have written your post (I think I did) a few years ago. Our life after school was HORRID!!! Our difficult child could not possibly do homework no matter what we tried. He was like a caged animal and HAD to go outside no matter the weather. His medications had been given for school behavior, not home behavior. We were already sacrificing that. Today, at almost 14, it's no different. When he was in fifth grade, we finally had it written into his IEP "NO HOMEWORK" at all. We insisted he read a little (whatever we could find that would interest him from the public library) and that was it. The NO HOMEWORK was suggested by the school disctrict's lead psychologist. To this day, our difficult child storms in the front door every day after school (medication long gone) and I know there's still no way he could ever sit and do even thirty min of homework. He is UNABLE to do that, period. He makes very good grades.....all A's and B's in the 7th grade, though I know he's not learning like the other students. He's in a social development class where the teacher is aware of the problems and gets him to work a little independently during the school day.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>PLEASE for the sake of your relationship with your child, try to get it written into his IEP that his homework is eliminated or at least abbreviated to the point that maybe he could do five math problems or read one chapter. It's essential for your mental well-being as well as his. Our difficult child suffered severe self-esteem problems that took forever to overcome because he'd been humiliated at school for not doing his homework.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>I DO know what you're going through. ODD is a bugger and we are still struggling with it even though we don't have the homework issue. I feel like an expert on it after fourteen years!</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wakeupcall, post: 256539, member: 2287"] [B]I'm so sorry you are going through this. I could have written your post (I think I did) a few years ago. Our life after school was HORRID!!! Our difficult child could not possibly do homework no matter what we tried. He was like a caged animal and HAD to go outside no matter the weather. His medications had been given for school behavior, not home behavior. We were already sacrificing that. Today, at almost 14, it's no different. When he was in fifth grade, we finally had it written into his IEP "NO HOMEWORK" at all. We insisted he read a little (whatever we could find that would interest him from the public library) and that was it. The NO HOMEWORK was suggested by the school disctrict's lead psychologist. To this day, our difficult child storms in the front door every day after school (medication long gone) and I know there's still no way he could ever sit and do even thirty min of homework. He is UNABLE to do that, period. He makes very good grades.....all A's and B's in the 7th grade, though I know he's not learning like the other students. He's in a social development class where the teacher is aware of the problems and gets him to work a little independently during the school day. PLEASE for the sake of your relationship with your child, try to get it written into his IEP that his homework is eliminated or at least abbreviated to the point that maybe he could do five math problems or read one chapter. It's essential for your mental well-being as well as his. Our difficult child suffered severe self-esteem problems that took forever to overcome because he'd been humiliated at school for not doing his homework. I DO know what you're going through. ODD is a bugger and we are still struggling with it even though we don't have the homework issue. I feel like an expert on it after fourteen years![/B] [/QUOTE]
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