A mum of two young children has shared her outrage after her daughter's teachers set homework for the parents.
Carolyn Tate took to the honey parenting blog to vent after the four-year-old came home with her homework for the week - and she discovered a task had been set for her too.
She said the teachers had gone "too far" with the assignment for mums and dads, which had caused her extra unnecessary stress.
The mum, who also has a six-year-old son, said her daughter's homework that week was to write her own chapter of a Roald Dahl book.
Although she admitted she's not a fan of setting homework for young kids overall, Carolyn wrote on Honey : "I think that sounds like a really fun project, and I was eager to read my daughter's chapter."
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But as she read through the assignment in more detail, Carolyn noticed another instruction - that she should go through the chapter her daughter had written to identify features like noun groups, adverbs and direct speech.
The baffled mum assumed that was a task teachers should be asking her daughter to do - and checking over the work was the teacher's job in the first place.
Carolyn quipped: "Is she going to come to my house and cook dinner, perhaps run my kids to their afternoon sports, while I'm doing her job?"
She added that although there were plenty of parents who would eagerly complete the task, these were probably the same mums and dads who plan science projects with their kids months in advance.
Carolyn, on the other hand, is the kind of parent who "doesn't even scan the weekly email" from teachers explaining what the kids are learning - because she doesn't think it has anything to do with her.
She said that, in her opinion, her kids' schooling should be between them and their teachers. In contrast, her job is to love and care for them and teach them what they need to know about the world in a non-academic sense.
The mum argued she was busy enough without having to worry about doing homework too.
She added the homework could embarrass parents who don't have a good knowledge of grammar and might not be able to complete the task.
In the end, Carolyn agreed to carry out the task because her daughter was excited to know her mum would be reading her chapter.
But she said: "My honest feedback is that doing that homework added extra stress and pressure to my already busy week... And I don't think I'm the only one."
