<p>Are they? I know many who start their homework on Saturday and finish it all, leaving Sunday to relax and hang out with friends. Others I know take a break on Saturday and do their homework Sunday.
And others, of course, chill out on Saturday AND Sunday, and start homework around 10pm Sunday night.
What is your kids' pattern? Are weekends time to catch up on rest or are weekends more STRESSFUL?
Thanks!</p>
<p>As high schoolers, my kids typically had a game, a meet, or at least a practice on Saturdays. Some sleeping late or family activity (e.g., yardwork, grandma’s bday, helping with errands) usually rounded out the rest of the day. </p>
<p>Sundays are usually R&R with hw complete before dinner. </p>
<p>All of this gets rearranged from time to time, depending on the “family activity” schedule.</p>
<p>My daughter is out of the house by 7:30am on weekends to get to the barn, and is home around 6pm. Then again, she’s out of the house 10 minutes after she gets home from school on school days too.</p>
<p>She will meet us for Easter brunch though…</p>
<p>D2 will usually chill on Fri night. She has ballet on Sat. Up until a week ago, she was doing ballet everyday after school for 2-3 hours. Weekend is when she catches up with her homework. Other than having dinner with us sometimes, she is usually doing her homework or SAT now. Unfortunately, there isn’t much of down time. She needs to be very selective on what to do on weekends. </p>
<p>She is having brunch with us on Sun, she is trying to get together with a friend (a new male interest) for few hours, but that’s proven to be difficult. She is the one who is determining she is too busy.</p>
<p>D will try to get all the homework done first if possible-- otherwise it’s always on her mind. She’s very involved in an EC that can take 12 or more weekend hours, so its homework, EC… and then if there’s a space, there will certainly be some lying around staring at TV or facebook</p>
<p>We’re another family where everyone has somewhere to be on Saturday mornings, and often on Sundays too. </p>
<p>We have a family tradition of everyone making up a To-Do list at the beginning of the weekend (right after they get home from school on Friday for the kids, Friday after work for the parents) so that everyone knows what needs to happen over the weekend. That way the kids can schedule enough time for HW, I know if I need to run out and buy posterboard for someone’s project, and it helps me to remember to launder PE clothes. It also helps us to coordinate time to relax together. </p>
<p>We do the same thing over longer breaks, and it helps avoid the January 2nd project panic.</p>
<p>Rest on Saturday, work Saturday night, Sunday Morning, Sunday Afternoon, Sunday evening.</p>
<p>We don’t write D’s to-dos down (sophomore), but we do usually chat as we pull into the driveway on Friday afternoons about what she has to do over the weekend. I will ask her to please do at least one class of homework on Friday night if it is a very busy weekend, as she often has all day Saturday activities. If there is something else (like a sleepover), too, then I will ask her to describe in more detail what she has to do and when she plans to do it.</p>
<p>*My daughter is out of the house by 7:30am on weekends to get to the barn, and is home around 6pm. Then again, she’s out of the house 10 minutes after she gets home from school on school days too.</p>
<p>She will meet us for Easter brunch though*</p>
<p>My kids were like this & they weren’t even our animals- they belonged to the zoo.
( this was year round- they would only stop to have holiday dinner- if we arranged to have it at the zoo catering facility)</p>
<p>D2 was also on school & community sports teams year round,- Saturday was usually a game somewhere.</p>
<p>My D has always been very conscientious with her time management. Her Friday after school has her leading a group making food and distributing it to homeless and or anyone no questions asked. She works either Saturday or Sunday sometimes both sometimes neither at a hotel doing room service from @6AM until 2PM. She has a boyfriend and a few close girlfriends who she spends time with. She used to play soccer but quit a year and a half ago when she got burned out and started working instead–her choice. She has a 4.0 going into the last 8 weeks of school, and while I check her “grades” online, I never tell her how or when she has to study. She is president of her NHS, VP of the chess club, and lettered in Knowledge Bowl as well as soccer and NHS. I am quite frankly a bit in awe of her, she is just a great person to know and talk to even without all the “stuff.” DW and I are truly blessed, lucky or whatever you want to call it.</p>
<p>I think ds2 is really productive on the weekends – not always with homework, but he’s doing something. Tomorrow, for instance, he’s working (ref’ing two soccer games) and then he’s playing a new club sport for him. I think that’s productive. Probably won’t hit the books until Sunday. All depends on what’s going on, week to week.</p>
<p>My daughter has a job and usually works Fridays from 5 to 9 pm, and 10 to 14 hours over the weekend, she does homework whenever she isn’t sleeping. That’s about the extent of her weekends.</p>