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Oy! I’ve been working on a project for a while now and suddenly, my brain froze up. Seriously, froze. I have a bug to fix, and I can’t find it. I have fought for 2 days on this. I think I am going to take today to work on something else. Clear my brain for a bit. You know, let the problem stew in the background.

This past few months, I’ve been focussing on project relax. To be honest, it is actually working. I can now take in some deep breaths and stop stressing about a particular item. For example, last night I got stuck in traffic. It took my 1h 15 m to drive to the after school place. I called twice and they made sure someone stayed with the girls. I was annoyed, but when I was really stuck, I simply reminded myself that there was nothing I could do about it. And it helped.

I wish I had some totally deep post to write. I have thought about some pretty deep thoughts and I have some pretty deep ideas, but right now, I don’t have any in the top of my head. I have all of the little ones stuck in my head.

I really have a simple parenting question to ask y’all: Homework. WTF? This morning, Soleil worked on her homework during breakfast. It never occurred to me to ask her if she had extra and she didn’t remember about it. I hate homework. We have spelling (oops, we were supposed to work all week on it), and we should be reading (hell, Soleil reads to herself in bed. Luna likes to listen, so we do read almost everynight, but…) and Soleil often has other homework. Luna needs to draw out three sentances that end in q. I can think of Iraq. That’s it. What else ends in q?

Do you really embrace homework? Not? I want to help Soleil with her math facts over the summer. She doesn’t see the point to memorize things. Sigh. But I really hate homework. I find a lot of it is busy work. It is not terribly helpful and at most it teaches me how they are teaching the kids.

I wish we could make Alfie Kohn’s The Homework Myth required reading for all school administrators and teachers. We, as parents, should have a better way of expressing this, but instead, we all fall victim of the "too much to do" problem. I doubt I would ever go to the school board to fight homework.

oh well. Please: share your impressions on homework… I would love to hear it!