Should you let your 6th grader help your 1st grader with his homework, or expect your younger child to complete his work on his own?

As a teacher, I think this is a GREAT idea if done correctly! However, I would make 100% sure that the 6th grader fully understood the distinction between "helping" and "cheating. " If done the correctly, this practice could be beneficial to both children.

One of the best ways to go about it would be to let the 1st grader complete the work completely independently (with a quick explanation before beginning), then have the 6th grader "grade" it to look for errors. Then, the 6th grader could go over the assignment with them, discuss any corrections that need to be made, and give them praise where applicable. The first grader would benefit from the one-on-one feedback, and the 6th grader would benefit from the critical analysis (higher order thinking!).

All of that being said, if the 6th grader only wanted to help in an attempt to hurry his or her younger sibling along, then that definitely changes the situation. In that case, I would still allow them to help, but I would supervise to make sure the help was beneficial. You want to instill that accuracy and completeness are more important than speed.

There is nothing wrong with the older child helping the younger child. It helps the older child learn how to be patient and how to guide others, and helps the younger person feel some worth in the older child's attention. The only problem would be if the older child was DOING the younger child's homework.

We would go on trips, and although I am not the older, I was able to read and help my older brother with his spelling by giving him the words to spell. It was great fun for me, and seemingly for him. He had someone to help him out and I got to spend one on one time with my older brother who I looked up to.

There is no harm (less what I mentioned about doing the homework) in an older child helping a younger one. Make sure the older one has his done first, though. Don't have him put his off to help the younger.

I believe that is fine! If an older sibling can help out then that is great! As long as they are not telling the answer and actually just helping!

Siblings can sometimes be great help!

My parents never noticed that my sibilings( being in high school) would complete my homework for me (being in elementary school) which I now look back at as wrong; for the reason being if I was not lucky enough to just be born intelligent, I would have missed out on some vital learnings. I think its wrong for them to do the homework for them. But not wrong to help them out that would just be silly to tell them not to.

I think it is OK for the older sibling to help the younger sibling so long as a parent supervises to make sure the older sibling is just helping and not giving away the answers. There is no point in getting the homework done just for the sake of getting it done. The purpose of homework is to practice what was learned in school so that it is remembered.

That said, I don't really believe in homework. If you child were in my class, he would rarely have any. If he did, it would be of the science project variety, or perhaps a writing project if he were in high school.

I think it's nice for the older sibling to help the younger. However, the older sibling needs to be taught or shown how to help the younger one and not just do the work for him or her. Sometimes kids can explain things in a way that makes sense to other kids.

Schools often set up mentoring programs that use kids in older grades to help kids in younger grades. I understand that this can work really well. The older kids can also benefit because they can relearn concepts or learn how to explain how they get their answers rather than just coming up with the answers.It is a form of metacognition (thinking about thinking) for kids without them really knowing it.

As a teacher, I might ask my students to think about younger kids as an audience for explaining things. So maybe I do a project where I want my students to be able to explain a concept very simply so that a first grader can understand it. This then helps them think through what are important concepts and think beyond the topic at hand.

As others have mentioned, the younger one still needs to know how to do all the work.

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