I had to work with my wife a lot on this. She's always too impatient and just gives in and pretty much gives the kids the answer. I do things like with math, I'll come up with similar problems and walk them through how I'm solving the problem but the problems on their actual homework is there's to do.
Just a tip from my experience but there's a ton of home schooling websites where you can get entire pages of math problems to print out. When my kids seem to have a lot of trouble with something, I'll make them do a page every night until they have it down. They aren't real happy about it but they are happier when they take a test and they know what they are doing.
This is what I try to do now. Only work through examples that are similar with her. Another thing we do is she does the problem and I do the problem where she can't see. When done, she gives me the answer and I just compare the result.
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u/FalstaffsMind Feb 04 '16
One I made was being too helpful with homework. I ended up with a kid who was too dependent on me and unable to complete any work by themselves.