18th May - Homework is EVIL

Homework in my opinion should be banned.  Especially when it comes to giving it to kids with ASD.  I spent 2 hours arguing/assisting/encouraging the Short One to do his homework assignment over the weekend.  It is a speaking task for later in the week which involves him first having to write his talk.  The efforts so far have been futile. 

Because it is homework out of the usual format, he thinks he 'can't do it' so doesn't even try.  Despite my best efforts to tell him he is more than capable, he erupts in tears and I pull my hair out with tweezers.  Homework dramas are nothing new in this house. Today I have asked the Short One's teacher to help him with his because there truly is not enough patience in the saintliest of saints to help him when he parks that brain in a 'you will be clamped if you park here' spot in the car park of his head.  He parks, he gets clamped and all the chocolate bribery in the world does not release that bugger!  He has received a little bit of help with a suggestion that he does the rest at home.  And big *sigh*.  Til tomorrow (if I haven't put my head in the freezer that is!) x