<p>How many parents on this forum had regular homework the way our kids have it now? I never had regular homework until 7th grade! Yes, we had occasional book reports and other reports, and spelling tests for which the classroom work prepared us just fine, but not homework every night. In elementary school, we played after school. Outside! And we did chores. And we read books. We had to organize our own games because we did not have sports organized by parents. I did perfectly fine with college and career, and my executive functioning skills developed early, as did those of most of my generation. I think that we are expecting kids to do way more than is appropriate for their developmental level these days if parents have to help organize homework, scan rooms, etc. It’s the kids’ homework, not ours! I actually think that homework is promoting the opposite of executive functioning skills - by encouraging too much parental oversight, by giving it before the kids are developmentally ready to go off by themselves and do it independently. (I always subscribed to the philosophy that it was their homework, not mine, but they still were too young to go off by themselves, and had to do it in the kitchen while I was cooking - they all had desks but never used them. This just created bad habits in my opinion - and stuff all over the kitchen!) Wouldn’t it be great if their homework was to clean the bathroom? This would teach way more responsibility than the homework that they get!</p>