I dont recall this being much of a "big thing" when I was a child. However now there is (apparently) a trend for schools to allocate homework to primary kids with which parents are expected/required to help. For example making models, doing a reporting project, and so on.
I read a thread on Mumsnet where some posters deeply resented this intrusion into busy family time as it inevitably fell on the woman. Others argued that education does not stop at the school gates and that they took an interest in their children's homework and enjoyed helping out.
One the few occasions that I as a child was asked to "make" something at home I would not have dared mention it to my parents. They were completely disintereted in my education. Instead I went to my grandmother when I had to make (for example) a Coronation Scrapbook. I can remember her deliberately buying magazines for me to cut up and stick into it, so that I won a class prize.
Fortunately I was a very arty-crafty child and good at making castles out of toilet rolls, baby cradles out of sugar boxes, and masks out of paper plates.
Did any of you help your children or grandchildren with these projects? If so, how did you feel about it?
