Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 01, 2017

Just spend the extra time dancing with each other.

Ask Dad what grades he got.

Appreciate it, Calvin. Most of your day is made up of free time

Thank you Hobbes, you are a great help, thank you!!

just do your homework the minute you get home. you should be home before 3pm or so.

Lucky you. “Homework time” for me started as soon as I got home.

parenting flaw here, quantity is not the issue, it’s quality. Rather than forcing Calvin to spend an arbitrary amount of time in his room he should simply check over the assignment after it’s done and let him know about the mistakes he made. I recall in another strip he was actually doing that, and when he told Calvin “you can’t add 2 numbers together and get a result that is smaller than either of them” and he responded “why not! Who says I can’t!?” I imagine it would be really frustrating to realize your child is a stubborn idiot but you gotta commit if you want him to change.

There are replicated peer-reviewed studies which show that homework has no measurable effect on academic performance until around 8th grade. Homework for younger students is a show for parents.