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Being a senior and being six years ahead of my youngest brother automatically makes me his homework checker. Although most times it's more like homework doer. I was initially offered $10/hour for helping him do homework, but that's more than my job, and I knew I wouldn't get payed that much anyway, so I opted for $10 a week. Since I save up my work money that just allows me pretty much an allowance I use on whatever. So it began.
Every day, after we eat, and he's done playing outside, and after he watches one more episode of that, and oh after that too, we do homework. It takes my mom yelling to get him to do it, I don't get involved in that part, I just remind him. Do you think I'm going to argue with an 11 year old? So when it comes time he throws a fit. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a fit. Frothing at the mouth. Pouting. Barking, using the bathroom indoors, you name it. He'll either be in that kind of mood or plain out rude. I know I'm your brother but I don't like hearing you tell me to "shut the **** up" when I ask you what kind of problems they are. In any case, it can go the somewhat easy way, or the slightly harder way. First way, he'll say he can do the problems and do them at an ok rate I guess. Then I look at the problems and they're all wrong. That's when I take a deep breath and glare at the 30 problems and say, "ok, look at number 1..."
The other way it can go is straight to hell. Head down, crying, turned away from me. Fat drops of tears falling, falling, whoa, there goes number 20. I try to be patient and explain it. I really do. I've drawn pictures, done sample problems, asked him questions to see what he does know, but hot diggity dog! I can't tell you when I learned how to use logic. Doesn't that come naturally? I could tell you when I learned laws and how to use a fork. Those are things that shouldn't come naturally to you. A caveman is not going to figure out Boyle's Law. He can figure out that one stick plus another stick is two sticks. He can figure out that if you want to put ten dinosaurs in separate groups, you can divide them evenly into smaller groups. He can figure out that if you had four times as many dinosaurs as that, you'd have a problem. He can also figure out that if you owe Ooga two sticks, you have to give him two sticks. Why are concepts like these so hard to understand?
I'm not sure if it's just a great desire to uh, not learn, or if he really doesn't get it. If you ask him that he won't respond! Some people can go through life without learning coordinate planes or algebra. That's not possible here though, and he definitely has the ability to do it. I think.
Being a senior and being six years ahead of my youngest brother automatically makes me his homework checker. Although most times it's more like homework doer. I was initially offered $10/hour for helping him do homework, but that's more than my job, and I knew I wouldn't get payed that much anyway, so I opted for $10 a week. Since I save up my work money that just allows me pretty much an allowance I use on whatever. So it began.
Every day, after we eat, and he's done playing outside, and after he watches one more episode of that, and oh after that too, we do homework. It takes my mom yelling to get him to do it, I don't get involved in that part, I just remind him. Do you think I'm going to argue with an 11 year old? So when it comes time he throws a fit. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, a fit. Frothing at the mouth. Pouting. Barking, using the bathroom indoors, you name it. He'll either be in that kind of mood or plain out rude. I know I'm your brother but I don't like hearing you tell me to "shut the **** up" when I ask you what kind of problems they are. In any case, it can go the somewhat easy way, or the slightly harder way. First way, he'll say he can do the problems and do them at an ok rate I guess. Then I look at the problems and they're all wrong. That's when I take a deep breath and glare at the 30 problems and say, "ok, look at number 1..."
The other way it can go is straight to hell. Head down, crying, turned away from me. Fat drops of tears falling, falling, whoa, there goes number 20. I try to be patient and explain it. I really do. I've drawn pictures, done sample problems, asked him questions to see what he does know, but hot diggity dog! I can't tell you when I learned how to use logic. Doesn't that come naturally? I could tell you when I learned laws and how to use a fork. Those are things that shouldn't come naturally to you. A caveman is not going to figure out Boyle's Law. He can figure out that one stick plus another stick is two sticks. He can figure out that if you want to put ten dinosaurs in separate groups, you can divide them evenly into smaller groups. He can figure out that if you had four times as many dinosaurs as that, you'd have a problem. He can also figure out that if you owe Ooga two sticks, you have to give him two sticks. Why are concepts like these so hard to understand?
I'm not sure if it's just a great desire to uh, not learn, or if he really doesn't get it. If you ask him that he won't respond! Some people can go through life without learning coordinate planes or algebra. That's not possible here though, and he definitely has the ability to do it. I think.
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It works like a charm, and makes life all kinds of easy! 