Healthy Homework

Most parents I meet have been conditioned to believe that homework is a necessary part of a child's development and worry that a child in Montessori will somehow suffer because of the lack of it...even at the primary level.Education experts recently presented new Healthy Homework Guidelines to the National PTA, calling attention to the ineffectiveness of assigning homework to young children, and the toll that homework takes on healthy family life.  Alfie Kohn, author of Unconditional Parenting, Punished by Rewards, The Homework Myth, and other books and articles on human behavior, education, and parenting, calls homework "the greatest single extinguisher of children's curiosity that we have ever invented . . . no research has ever found any benefit to assigning homework before kids are in high school."  healthy homework