{"id":178262,"date":"2025-11-13T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/178262\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:01:25","slug":"as-a-parent-i-know-doing-homework-with-primary-school-kids-can-be-a-pain-but-it-shouldnt-be-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/178262\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018As a parent I know doing homework with primary school kids can be a pain, but it shouldn\u2019t be scrapped\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A recap of the day\u2019s learning is beneficial for children, but let\u2019s change the way homework is done\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Homework can be stressful for busy parents and kids, but it does have benefits. Photo posed: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/44f283ee-dcb4-4c7e-84a3-6c9e08224fb5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Homework can be stressful for busy parents and kids, but it does have benefits. Photo posed: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Homework \u2013 the mere mention of the word is guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of parents and children up and down the country. For the grown-ups of my generation, the word usually triggers a collective trauma intricately interwoven with the all too familiar opening chords of RT\u00c9\u2019s Glenroe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The soap, which aired on a Sunday night, often coincided with the horrifying realisation that you had not done your homework and were now all out of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A recap of the day\u2019s learning is beneficial for children, but let\u2019s change the way homework is done&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,99378,13,14,6,11,23,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-178262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-daily-features","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latest-news-ticker","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115541815045830114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}