homework hell

trying to get homework finished is painful. dd is struggling so we are all under stress!!! ds has just started secondary gosh what a shock to the system, he is coping really well but we have just spent the last half hour trying to help him write a poem, i have discovered that i love haiku's they sound so good.
it has been put away now and am soo glad, now he tells me that he only had to write one and he has managed 7. omg what am i goona do with him.