This is why we struggle in the classroom…
Homework: the nightly battlefield where mother and father and youngsters conflict over math issues, spelling lists and life’s little injustices.
But one Arizona mother is tossing the rulebook — and a few solutions — proper out the window.
TikTokker Lottie Weaver fessed up on the platform — with 847,000 eyeballs watching — that she sometimes does her youngsters’ homework for them, even handing over the solutions when needed.
“I have a confession to make — and if you’re my kids’ school teacher, just keep swiping.”
The mom of three explained that after a long day of courses, exams and excellent habits, she sometimes steps in.
“After the kids have been at school all day, done their work, been on their best behavior, and they come home with homework, sometimes I give them the answers to their homework.”
This week, her daughter hit the traditional homework wall.
“You can tell, she starts to get antsy toward the end, she’s starting to get frustrated. So, the last four or five questions, I just gave her the frickin’ answers,” Weaver said.
She confused that her youngsters do most of the work on their own and are doing properly in faculty — it’s just when focus fizzles that Mom swoops in.
“They do the first half of their homework and then, when I can tell that they’re getting antsy, fidgety, annoyed — they’re, like, over it — I give them the answers, OK?” she said.
Weaver explained her reasoning bluntly: “A lot of times, I do a lot of the projects because as a kid, that’s a lot, and that’s hard. Our job as parents is to help them — some may disagree, but I don’t really care.”
Her TikTok mantra? “Mom is here to help.”
One TikTokker admitted she sometimes does her youngsters’ homework for them — solutions included. leszekglasner – stock.adobe.com
Naturally, the post sparked debate. Teachers had been fast to argue that stepping in crosses a line.
“As someone who works with kids, please let them do their own work! This is why we struggle in the classroom,” one commenter snapped.
More educators raised long-term considerations.
“Please don’t. As a middle school teacher, you’re doing them a huge disservice because you’re not building the stamina she needs as she gets older to do more and more work. If she needs it, take a break and come back to it,” one warned.
Others supplied a more nuanced perspective.
“Helping them is different than doing it for them, though. You don’t want this to catch up to them eventually,” one commenter famous.
Some urged giving partial steerage, taking breaks, or leaving notes for academics explaining where youngsters struggled.
But the total message was clear: serving to is nice — but doing the homework outright may shortchange youngsters and educate them that frustration can always be outsourced.
“Ur job as a parent is also to prepare ur kids for life. There’s nothing wrong with letting ur kid struggle with their homework and u frequently doing it for them is only a disservice to their future,” one commenter summed up the sentiment.
Weaver’s homework confession lit up the web like a classroom fire alarm. Teachers had been fast to weigh in, warning that stepping in may go away youngsters studying less, not more. kaliantye – stock.adobe.com
Weaver’s confession might have academics and fellow mother and father clutching their pearls, but she’s far from alone in the wild world of unconventional parenting.
As beforehand reported by The Post, across the globe, mothers like Danielle Gallacher in Scotland are rewriting the rulebook, letting homework slide, granting screen-time freedom, and even teaching youngsters to struggle back.
Critics called it “lazy parenting dressed up as ‘progressive,’” but Gallacher insists it’s all about steadiness: faculty issues, sure — but childhood comes first.
Homework might never be non-obligatory, but sanity sure is — and some mothers are handing out the solutions liberally.
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