In second grade, I stopped being able to do math. One night I went to do my long-division homework and I couldn’t figure it out. My mom demanded that I sit with my math teacher because my sudden ...

My son is in second grade and gets homework in several subjects every day. Sometimes, we are both up past his bedtime to ensure everything gets done. A child psychologist agrees that homework on ...

My son doesn't like to do homework after a long day of school. I also get worried about helping him because I learned to do the work a different way years ago. Education experts told me to give him ...

As a young child in Long Island, New York, I struggled to learn how to count. I relied on my fingers to get from one to ten, but what happened after my pinky went down was a mystery. Without physical ...

Ever since I was young, I was an overachiever and perfectionist, and now that I am a senior in high school, the stresses of perfection are catching up to me. The time it takes to thoroughly do my math ...

How soon we forget grade school. Not so much the look or smell (Crayola Crayons, anyone?) or feel, but the stuff we were taught. Then our own children come to us for help with homework that stumps and ...