Your Kids Should Only Be Doing About an Hour of Homework Every Day

A new study found the optimal amount of homework your kid should do every night is about one hour.  Once they go beyond that, they tend to get distracted and they have trouble with retention.  They found kids should work for about 60 minutes . . . maybe 70 minutes max.  That way they do the best work and get the most out of what they're learning.

At 90 to 100 minutes, they lose focus and don't retain what they're studying and the kids that did more homework actually did worse on tests.

How many hours of homework are your kids doing?  By our responses on Facebook, it looks like it's a least an hour, if not more. And it seems like it's just as much for gradeschoolers as it is for kids in Jr High and High School

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