My teenage daughter and I are at an impasse when it comes to homework. She will not turn in her schoolwork to be corrected. She is doing her assignments, but she will not have them graded. This stubbornness is a problem for several reasons.

She doesn’t always understand written directions until I explain them to her and show her several examples. Therefore, if she doesn’t have her work checked for a few weeks, she may complete several assignments incorrectly, by following the wrong procedures. By then, the incorrect methodology is ingrained in her mind, and it is very difficult to get her to change.

She definitely knows how to turn work in from her years of attending public school. We had kept her at public school so she could receive speech therapy, occupational therapy, and other special education services, when we began homeschooling the other children. She has only been homeschooled for three years. We felt compelled to remove her from the public school system when she began stealing projects from other children and submitting them to the teacher as her own, copying student’s answers, and stealing money from mom’s purse to spend at school on a daily basis.

Our homeschool enrichment classes began two weeks ago, every Tuesday. It is a co-op of homeschool families who come together once a week. The children attend hour-long classes, led by parents, with their homeschooled peers.

I told my daughter that she could begin attending the classes that I signed her up for with her friends as soon as all of her work was corrected. In the mean time, she could sit with me in the nursery with Amigrace and the other babies, which is my current co-op responsibility. I foolishly thought that one week with me and the babies would be enough to motivate her.

She has now wasted two of her enrichment Tuesdays in the nursery. Tomorrow is Friday and she still has not turned in her work to be graded for the past month.

I told her Tuesday that she could begin doing extra jobs for me in her spare time until her work is graded. Well she showed me, she didn’t finish her schoolwork until 8pm. Then tonight I asked her to break down cardboard boxes for recycling. There were five boxes and it took her over an hour.

The whole thing is ridiculous and illogical. She sits around pouting as if I am the most unfair person in the world, when all she has to do is give me her schoolwork to grade. Her stubbornness is hurting her and preventing her from spending time with her friends but she won’t give it up.


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