I'm wondering ... would you happen to have a club gathering active when they insist on doing homework? I've been playing around with creating "family clubs" where the household makes up the club members. I pick activities I want them to do like homework, cleaning, gardening, painting, or whatever skill they are working on. The adults get a boost to careers, and you can pick boosts to the skills you want them to work on. Anyway, whenever I have homework on the list of activities, I can't keep the kids from doing it, even when they have needs in the red. It's funny to see the kid barely able to sit at the table insisting they finish the homework before sleeping; if only real life kids were partially as interested!