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SharpMom Week in Review: Jan. 14th - 20th

January 20, 2007

Here are the SharpMom posts from the past week for your convenience. Enjoy!

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Homework, Homework, Homework! How Much is too Much? (New Poll)

January 18, 2007

homework

I hear horror stories about how much time kids are spending on homework. My babysitter is in high school at a private Christian school and she says she spends several hours every night (and on the weekend too) doing homework. Wow! How is there anytime left to be a kid?

My daughter is in first grade and she has 15 minutes of reading each night. The teacher sends home books each week and we just account for what we’ve read on a reading log. She also has a spelling list of 15 words to learn each week, plus a special project every now and then. It’s very manageable right now, but this is first grade and she’s my only child in elementary school.

I’d like to hear about your homework experiences. How many minutes/hours each night do your kids have? Do they do it or do you have to beg them? Do they need a lot of help? Please enter your comments and let us know. And, be sure to vote in our new poll (to the right).

How much time do your kids spend on homework each night?

  • Less than 30 minutes
  • 30 minutes - 1 hour
  • 1 -2 hours
  • More than 2 hours

I’m looking forward to your results!!

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What to do on a Cold Winter Day?

January 18, 2007

winter

I live in North Texas, so we don’t get much of a Winter. This is a good thing since most of us can’t handle much of a Winter! After endless Summer days over 100 degrees, we can hardly stand more than a week of freezing weather. So, this has been our week for it. Here I am living in this tiny apartment, with one ice day after the next. Since we don’t get much winter weather, our news teams live for the ice storms. So, they spent all weekend scaring us about “upcoming storms,” which never amounted to anything, and then totally missed the real ice storm which is keeping us home today. Go figure!

Anyhow, since we thought we would be iced in all weekend, we rented something for everyone in the family!

  • For our little guy (Terror Tot!): How to Eat Fried Worms: It’s as gross as it sounds, but he seemed to enjoy it.
  • For our daughter (Her Highness!): Little House on the Prairie: It’s the Disney mini series version. It filled over four hours of our weekend, but the entire family really enjoyed this one. It focused on the early years for Charles Ingalls and his family when they moved from Wisconsin to the Kansas Prairie. It was rated G of course, but there was lots of drama that made it entertaining for everyone and it was  educational for the kids too!
  • For Mom and Dad: Thank You for Smoking: It was good, but I had heard so much about it I guess I was expecting better. Aaron Eckhart is really great and it was interesting to watch him use his PR skills to promote the tabacco industry and smoking. What a spin doctor! He might be “award worthy” but probably not the overall film. Great cast though: William H. Macy, Robert DuVall, Rob Lowe, Adam Brody and Katie Holmes. It was my first time to see Katie Holmes in a more grown-up role (I used to watch her on Dawson’s Creek!) and it was strange. She just has that youthful look about her.

So, it was a video filled weekend for us. I definetly recommend you check out Little House, especially if you have school-aged girls! They will love it and my son loved the Indians!

Written by Nicole · Filed Under Entertainment, Family | Leave a Comment 

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