A free 2-part mini course for parents and caregivers stuck in nightly homework battles. Learn why after-school meltdowns are often about depletion, not defiance, and how to use decompression time, predictable routines, short homework blocks, supportive scripts, and the included reset plan.
Welcome to How to Handle Homework Battles, a free Sticky Brain Studio mini course for parents and caregivers. This course is designed to help you understand why homework can become such a big conflict point after school and how to build a calmer, more predictable routine at home.
Start with Video 1, then watch Video 2, then download the Homework Routine Template + After-School Reset Plan. You do not need a perfect system. You just need a repeatable one.
After you finish the course, choose one small change to practice this week. Want more support? Explore Sticky Brain Studio’s executive functioning, ADHD, and parent/caregiver tools for more strategies around task initiation, routines, emotional regulation, and school-day recovery.
Homework battles are usually regulation problems, not motivation problems
Learn why kids often fall apart after school and how to build a calmer homework routine that works with the brain instead of fighting against it.
Video 1: Why Homework Battles Happen
Understand why your child may melt down, shut down, argue, avoid, or resist homework after holding it together all day at school.
Video 2: What Actually Helps
Learn how to use decompression time, predictable routines, chunked assignments, supportive scripts, and regulation-first parenting strategies.
Printable Homework Routine Template
Build a simple after-school structure with arrival home, decompression, transition cue, homework blocks, breaks, and completion.
After-School Reset Plan
Use the Three R’s — Refuel, Release, and Reconnect — to help your child’s brain recover before asking it to perform.
Disclaimer
This mini course is for educational purposes only and does not replace therapy, medical advice, school-based support, psychological evaluation, or individualized clinical guidance. If homework struggles are severe, persistent, unsafe, or connected to significant anxiety, mood concerns, learning differences, ADHD, autism, trauma, or family distress, consider consulting a licensed professional or your child’s school team.