I lost my temper over an Algebra II worksheet. Not shouting exactly, but my voice changed, and my son’s face changed with it. That was the night I worked out that helping kids with homework is a skill, and I did not have it. Offering a YouTube channel to teach algebra was not helping. Good news: it is a skill you can pick up in about a week. Most of what goes wrong at that table is not your kid being lazy, and it is not you being a bad dad. It is the timing, and it is the ki

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