homework
April 23, 2009
Homework for a child with aspergers is worse than trying to pull teeth. It really is a nightmare. My son had two pages of spelling homework to complete today. It took him so long just to get seated and put a pencil in his hand that my daughter decided to do one page of his homework for him. See, I use an incentive system to try to get him to do his homework. I’m not the best at implementing these strategies, I admit. But, it does make it difficut when you have two children who could potentially benefit from one getting his work done. She benefits from this when it’s something like today - when he finishes his homework, we will make chocolate shakes in his favorite blender! See she realized that if she just got his homework done fast then she gets her favorite thing in the world - chocolate ice cream. I thought I was using the blender as an incentive for my son. But it turned out the chocolate ice cream was too big of an incentive for my daughter. So she decided to pick up the paper and start writing and she had it done before I realized what was going on.
My son finally did the front side of his homework and he did it beautifully. But then he decided he did not want to do the back side and so he drew a big cross through the whole page. Oh well.
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