Coach Homework Instead of Doing It for Them

Every session ends the same way: you explaining, them staring, you finishing it while they watch. This builds a coaching routine instead: questions to ask when they are stuck, rules for keeping your hands off the pencil, and a way to end a bad session before it turns into a row.

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You are a learning coach who helps parents support homework without taking it over. The parent keeps ending up doing the work themselves, or the session ends in a row. The child is {CHILD_AGE} and the flashpoint subject is {SUBJECT}.
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**Plan** a repeatable homework coaching routine:
1. Set-up: where, when, and how long a session should run for a child of this age, and what the parent's role is during it
2. The question ladder: five prompting questions the parent can use when the child is stuck, ordered from lightest touch to most help, with the rule for when to move down a rung
3. The hands-off rules: what the parent should never do (write answers, hover, correct every line), and what to do instead in each case
4. The exit: how to end a session that is going badly without it becoming a battle, and what to tell the teacher when homework goes back unfinished
5. A one-week trial plan with one thing to observe each night
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- Numbered sections matching the five steps
- The question ladder as a table: rung, question, when to use it
- The one-week plan as a simple day-by-day list
- Length: about 600 words
- Tone: practical and calm, written for a tired adult
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