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How to Help with Homework Without Destroying Your Relationship

I spend two hours every evening helping with homework and it's become this tense miserable thing where we're both frustrated and I wonder if I'm teaching her that learning is supposed to feel like punishment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire to help has transformed into a source of mutual suffering.

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