my mom is killing me

fizix2
Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:55:27 +0000

Explain to her why it’s impossible. Tell her you’d like to put a lot of effort into every class and you can’t do that if you take too many. It’s a perfectly reasonable idea, especially if you give her time estimates so she knows what she’s working with. Is she close to you? Does she know how much homework you get, how much time you spend studying, how demanding your high school life actually is?

Example of what you might say:

“If I spend an hour a day on math, an hour a day on English, two hours a day on physics, and two hours a day on history (my weak subject), that means I spend six hours a night doing homework. I wake up at 5:30 am, so to get eight hours of sleep a night I’d have to go to bed by 9. I get back from school at 3 but I’ve got varsity football until 5, so that gives me four hours a night to do homework and relax. Clearly I can’t accommodate this schedule unless I cut back study time on each subject, which I don’t want to do because I want to do really well in all my classes.”

Argue like that, and your parents are well on their way to seeing reality.