Did you do your homework?

Is it wrong to do your children's homework? In my opinion not if it is coloring assigned to a ninth grader. Maybe there is pedagogical value to outlining countries and coloring each with a different colored pencil, but call me skeptical. So Catherine and I have developed a little symbiotic relationship in the geography arena this semester. She labels all the Thailands, Indonesias and so on, and I break out the colored pencils. I find coloring a bit like ironing. Does not occupy any grey matter and is strangely soothing.