*I participated in a campaign on behalf of Netflix.  As a member of the Netflix Stream Team, I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.     I never fully appreciated how much work parents put into helping their kids with homework and projects until I, myself became a mother.  Prior to that, as an educator, I would dole out assignments and never even consider how much work parents would have to put into making sure that their children completed each task.     Now that I am a mother of school-aged children, I have spent my share of evenings doing homework that was supposed to be for my boys but that I ended up feeling like it was homework for me.  This was especially true when I had to help my son build an Iroquois Longhouse situated in fall foliage.  As you can see from the photos below, it was a lot of work for my son and for me!     When it comes to helping them with science projects, I enjoy the hands-on aspect of it but I'm not that strong in that subject … [Read more...]