At the library I shirked my homework and pored over old bound volumes of these magazines.
But, of course, it wasn't me getting up at 05:00 to train and also trying to juggle my homework.
They pushed me to get my homework done, and they encouraged me to pursue the things that I loved.
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If I taught a business or public speaking class, my homework assignments would involve weekly visits to karaoke bars.
When we gathered in our small groups the next Wednesday I pulled out my homework and asked how they did with theirs.
But I had again done my homework, and when we were looking to diversify, we studied all of the businesses that survived the Great Depression.
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So again, though, I hate to say it, there's so many of these excuses, it's a little bit of the dog ate my homework syndrome now.
Sometimes when I'm doing my homework, I just get carried away with talking to my friends online but my mum comes and tells me when it's time to stop.
This year though, just like the excuses I used to give for failing to do my homework at school, I simply haven't had time to do enough practice runs.
As I did my homework, I noticed that they always had a plan for getting out of an investment, aimed for low turnover whenever possible, never made impulsive decisions about any investment, and focused on a few key areas.
This was brought out in recent research by economists at the Resolution Foundation (you see I have been doing my homework....) It found that higher unemployment was now having a much greater "chilling effect" on wages than in the past.
When I was their age, I would have done my French homework before I'd have put on something like that.
If you do, you can offer your dog-ate-my-homework excuse then .
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Almost immediately my son started seeing homework as a workout to grow his brain.
In doing our homework, my wife and I learned of accomplished people who inherited money in their 30s and 40s and nevertheless self-destructed.
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Fortunately, there were occasions when I enjoyed a normal day when I played catch with my sons and helped my daughters with their homework.
Kashmir great article as usual, nothing like reading an article like this before a 12.5 hour day of classes and homework, to get my brain pumping.
To get a handle on my children's hectic, homework-jammed evenings, I keep extras of everything they might need for projects: binders, construction paper, poster board, notebooks, pens, markers, glue sticks.
"My dad wasn't one to do homework with me, to help with school projects, " he says by phone from his home in Puerto Rico.
In order to counter this inevitability, I gave them all some homework to do at the end of my talk.
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My son's day care started sending home gifted-and-talented homework at the age of 2.
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Was my mind wandering that day, thinking about an upcoming exam or how much homework I had to do that evening?
So my hope and expectation is that, as a consequence of us doing our homework, we can explore with the parties a mechanism for them to sit back down, to get rid of some of the old assumptions, to think in new ways and to get this done.
Angry Birds alone has sucked up a gazillion hours in which my kids could have been, I dunno, cleaning out the garage, or doing their homework.
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My teenage son has been staying up until one and two in the morning to finish his homework , and then falling asleep in class the next day.. Thank goodness he recently came up with a possible fix: SelfControl, a free app he has installed on his computer.
My 14-year-old son and I have taken to watching reruns of Seinfeld together when his homework is done some nights.
It's been my experience that many teachers don't really care whether parents go to the PTA or help their kids with homework.
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