Problems With Homework

"Anthonydyer;d-918912" wrote:
Homework has always been the center of problems for me in the Sims series. Especially in TS2. I have found myself focused on supporting my sim's necessities such as hunger and energy, and homework is always put on the back burner. Of course, if you don't have your fun meter up high, your sim will refuse to complete his homework. As a result of this, at one point in time I had 2 children and 1 teen in a household, and I would have to sacrifice my teen by making him complete the 2 children's homework just to prevent child services from taking the kids. I think I even made the teen skip school. On top of that, if their mood bar was red, they would not autonomously go to school, making the situation even worse. If you don't finish the homework, you will do bad in school... seriously? It's like a perpetuating cycle. It takes like 2 hours to complete the homework. Is that right? It supposedly is beneficial to ask for homework help from an adult, but it is a nightmare to track down an adult; they almost always get sidetracked.

Well, in the meantime I am playing an adults only house and it is nice to not have to deal with homework. Could there be something I am doing wrong with homework? Does anyone else struggle with the homework assignments?

I think it depends on the kid, but yeah, homework is a chore. I try to make them do their homework immediately after school, and if they bring a friend home, I usually make them send the friend home. The exception to this is if it's a Friday. And yes, having a parent help is usually key. What I usually do is pause the game after the child or teen has brought their homework home and dumped the books wherever they dumped them, and if it's not on their desk in their room, I move the books there. Then I figure out where the parents are, and choose one and have them offer to help the child with their homework. I then unpause the game and let the parent head upstairs and repause the game, find the kid who hopefully is still in their room and then have them ask the same parent for assistance with their homework and unpause the game. Between the two of them searching for each other in the room where the homework is, that usually cuts down on wasted time and the kid sits down to do the homework and the parent stands over them assisting. If the kid then gets too frustrated and needs some fun, I have them stop the homework and have the kid watch T.V. for awhile while the parent makes dinner, then after they eat, I have the kid go back upstairs to finish their homework, and then if there's time, I let the kid do what they want until I send them to bed. They're usually able to keep As doing it this way. If it's a Friday, I'm usually more lax with them and if they brought a friend home, I let them play until it's time for the friend to go home (which is usually around 8 anyway), and then I have the kid go do their homework and go to bed, and then they have the rest of the weekend for fun or building their body skills, or work on other skills, or just have fun.

I hope that helps.