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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. If

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Speaker 1: you're a mama or a dad and you're really struggling

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Speaker 1: with the homework. Now, the homeworkload could be massive, and

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Speaker 1: there are some schools out there that don't believe in homework.

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Speaker 1: And I would love it if my kids' schools adopted

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Speaker 1: that theory, because when they come home, they don't want

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Speaker 1: to do what they've been doing all day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, where the other way. At the moment, it's

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Speaker 2: a lot of they're doing a lot of homework at school,

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Speaker 2: so we're getting a lot of no, no, no, We've

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Speaker 2: already done it, done it at school.

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Speaker 1: It even makes sense if they were to spend another

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Speaker 1: half an hour or forty five minutes getting it done

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Speaker 1: at school supervised fits before then coming home, having something

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Speaker 1: to eat and having to sit down at the table

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Speaker 1: again and not to mention the stress it brings them.

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Speaker 1: And when you've got three kids and they've all got

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Speaker 1: different homework books and different exercises that need to be

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Speaker 1: ticked off and signed by the parent, you sit there going,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make dinner at the same time, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm going to get through this.

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Speaker 1: And then it takes over half your Sunday because you're

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Speaker 1: trying to jump the gun and get it done because

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Speaker 1: the week is so busy and it's taking from family time. Now,

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Speaker 1: it's fine if you're doing the times table, you make

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Speaker 1: a couple of flip cards and you go through your mats.

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Speaker 1: That's simple. Then when you open the kids workbook and

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Speaker 1: it's got a sheet here with their week long homework

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Speaker 1: on how to make a soul of water heater, you

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Speaker 1: go into panic mode.

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Speaker 2: Now why do you I mean you got your mum's

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Speaker 2: your homework.

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Speaker 1: The whole time, which means, in a strange twist, I'm

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Speaker 1: now in charge of making a solar water heater. So

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Speaker 1: what this is? Grade four?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: So this is this is.

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Speaker 1: How the page that's stuck in the book starts. You

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Speaker 1: will need a square cardboard box, a stick of wood,

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Speaker 1: duck table cling wrap, a tin can, sandpaper, metal primer,

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Speaker 1: flat black enamel paint, aluminium four well and contact cement

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Speaker 1: or heat resistant glue. So I've got to put in

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Speaker 1: a Bunning's order, which might arrive in a week's time.

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Speaker 2: You're at there every second day anywayment, it's.

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Speaker 1: Going to cost you a fortune to make a what

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Speaker 1: is it solar water heater?

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank god your school fees are so low.

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Speaker 1: Then, well that's the thing with government funding now supporting

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Speaker 1: the schools. Step one, cut the box and half along

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Speaker 1: the diagonalose shown leaving a triangular shape at the top

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Speaker 1: of the bottom. Select one half of the box to

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Speaker 1: become your heater, and out of the top triangle from

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Speaker 1: the left over half box with the two sides and

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Speaker 1: fold it down. Cut them to fit the interior or

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Speaker 1: alls with you. It goes on and on. One mother

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Speaker 1: one mother yesterday jumped on the group chat.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, yacht, don't say that there's a year for

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Speaker 2: WhatsApp group. Please do not say that.

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Speaker 1: How are you doing with the solar heater? I ended

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Speaker 1: up at the doctor, having accidentally reacted to the heat

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Speaker 1: resistant glue. I've now got third degree burns on my hand.

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Speaker 2: Ah, she got some botox while she was in there.

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Speaker 1: Oh she had her lips done as well. Nip and tuck,

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Speaker 1: jump back in the bentley and went home. But a

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Speaker 1: tough day for her. I don't want to sound like

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Speaker 1: that guy, but I've emailed the score. I've said, guys,

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Speaker 1: don't do it very much.

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Speaker 3: Mate.

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Speaker 2: We all had to do these in science? Were these experiments?

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Speaker 1: We don't have time to go down to the store.

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Speaker 1: We do stuff on the weekend like this. This is

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Speaker 1: not homework. Make it a month long, a term project.

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Speaker 1: Come on something like that. We built a mini garden

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Speaker 1: last year with lights in it. I didn't mind doing that.

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Speaker 2: Avet's given all a call from Silverdale. You've got four kids.

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Speaker 2: What's homework time like at yours place? Event?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's absolutely hestic. There's just always competing me. They're

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Speaker 3: all different ages, and you know, we go from trying

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Speaker 3: to hope help with mus homework to try to found out.

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Speaker 1: Work to day oh my god. And then you've got

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Speaker 1: to clear the table because dinner's about to arrive. So

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Speaker 1: you've got one cooking dinner and the other doing homework.

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Speaker 1: The one doing homework Francesca's in prep. She's got a

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Speaker 1: homework book. So you sit at the table with the

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Speaker 1: three of them, and they all want you at the

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Speaker 1: one time, Dad, Dad, I asked first, Now Dad, and

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Speaker 1: I can't spell.

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Speaker 2: Only imagine you and Francesca with your hands in your head,

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Speaker 2: just going.

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Speaker 1: This is ridiculous. What do you mean? The cat's had

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Speaker 1: on the mat?

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Speaker 2: How now? Brown cow that Johnny and Forestville. What year

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Speaker 2: level are we talking about here with homework?

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Speaker 3: John? What are you up to here?

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Speaker 1: Two?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my son came home with a bunch of maths

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Speaker 3: homework and my wife and I looked at it. We

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Speaker 3: worked on it for about six hours on the first night,

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Speaker 3: and we went to teacher the next day. We said,

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Speaker 3: this homework's pretty hard. My wife and I both worked

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Speaker 3: on it for hours and hours last night, and teacher said, Oh,

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Speaker 3: that's the homework for the whole perm.

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