My advice regarding homework is to start when your child is one! This may sound odd but homework can be classed as any educational work done in the home.
For a toddler ‘homework’ can be spending 30 minutes reading to them, using play dough, colouring with crayons, finger painting, playing with musical instruments or pots and pans if you don’t have any, water play, sand play and the list goes on.
The main point is that your child completes an activity that is educational. Most toddlers will need your help so this is also great bonding time but also great practise for you as their ‘homework’ will only get harder and longer!
When your child starts preschool, kindergarten and then big boy/girl school they will start to bring home homework. This will start with readers and completing tasks such as colouring-in and other activities that were not finished in class, also learning numbers … Read the rest