He waits till the last minute

and expects me to help to meet his deadline. My son wakes me up at 5 am (having only slept one hour) and asks me to help him with some homework...... One hr of sleep and I am supost to read 12 chapters on "Philosophy of Natural Sciences" and draft two pages of questions...and be finished by l0 am... .

The assignment is dated 27 Sept... and I ask why did you wait till the last minute to ask me to help.. well he said he thought he would have had time to do the assignment....I have helped my son several times with essays which is a lot different this this.. I got As and Bs with essays..................

Can a worldview be false? explain ...................discuss the Aristotelian worldview in contrast to our modern conception of the universe and point out that relative to some person(s) in the ancient world, their worldview was perfectly ok -and why?? huh????? lordy lordy.......If given a day to help I am sure I could do a great job... considering this is only to be a draft ... but 5 hrs..... omg...

I only help sometimes when he is in a bind ..but this isn't fair.. I am feeling the pressure and scattering big time... I pray I don't start writing about donald duck or popeye ...

just talking out loud.. no comments required.. maybe I am complaining... not sure...

I know.. I know I should have told him to do his own work.. Just sometimes i try to help..

Here's some online sites that might help narrow things down?

http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/sci240/aristotle.html

http://members.shaw.ca/jgfriesen/Mai...legomena8.html

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/WORLVIEW.html

It's hard,parents do not like to see their kids get a "missed" assignment or "fail", but we found out, they need to deal with the consequences (sp?) otherwise we are enabling them, my son's grade school teachers use to preach that, and besides it's his homework not yours.
My son, for some reason waits nearly to last minute, and hasn't gotten any help from us, since 8th grade, he's in his 2nd yr of college,with scholarship,etc.
He also did excellent in HS. So funny, till this day, I'll say, "do you have homework?", and of course it's near last minute.
Some people work best the last minute, while many of us need to plan. My complaint to him was, if he spent more time he'd even get better marks . . . well he still gets great grades. I guess that is his nature, but had we always weakened, I do not think he'd do this well, cause he wouldn't have learned what "responsible" means.
I use to love when the night before (late too) we would hear, "oh, I forgot I need certain paper,pen, or whatever he would need for a project due the next morning.
Driving all over to find a 24 hr grocery store or quick mart store. Yep, 8th grade was the final straw.
It's great when they are driving, they learn they have to get up and get what they need.
"Be gentle, but be firm", I use to say, when training our dogs, it helps with kids too.
Lots of luck

Thanks Perna....am checking out the links now....

Good points darkeyes..many good points.......I guess the only times I helped my son was in English and a few science projects... It all started in the first grade with a short story about the gingerbread man... That story grew all the way to the 9th grade ..

Anyway my son studies till the wee hours of the morning and works hard. He hasn't asked me for help I guess for two years or so... God his math I can't even pronounce let alone help...He will graduate from the university this winter or next spring..

What he asked me to help with is more or less an outline for a study guide. With specific questions to cover...and give examples from the reading material... And I might add, hard questions . I don't mind helping when I can since he seldom asks for help... Just this time he asked a lot to be done in such a short time...

having only an hour of sleep, I do believe most of my brain cells are sleeping and the ones that are awake are saying go to bed, go to bed....




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I wanted to say thanks again for your input.

I am sitting here feeling oh so very bad and guilty that I did not finish the study guide/ outline. I hate it when I can't finish something... I should not be feeling guilty because this was not my responsibilty.. so typical of me... feeling guilt for others.... I hate the feeling of "failure"... (and I have failed in so many times in life ) Then my son adds to the guilt by being angry at me..or maybe he is venting out his own anger for not getting to his assignment. But then it is my fault because my son has always counted on me when he was in a bind.. Something I guess I taught him, which in some cases was very wrong of me.....I am off to bed...