--- description: Heather Shumaker is a national speaker on early childhood topics and the author of two books, It’s OK Not to Share and It’s OK to Go Up the Slide, coming out March 8, 2016. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production ---  # Heather Shumaker  ## Heather Shumaker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Heather Shumaker is a national speaker on early childhood topics and the author of two books, _It’s OK Not to Share_ and _It’s OK to Go Up the Slide_, coming out March 8, 2016.  ## Heather Shumaker Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Mar 8, 2016 ### [Why Parents Should Not Make Kids Do Homework](https://time.com/4250968/why-parents-should-not-make-kids-do-homework/) Or, at least, not for hours every night Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/heather-shumaker/","name":"Heather Shumaker"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/heather-shumaker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/heather-shumaker/"},"name":"Heather Shumaker","jobTitle":null,"description":"Heather Shumaker is a national speaker on early childhood topics and the author of two books, It’s OK Not to Share and It’s OK to Go Up the Slide, coming out March 8, 2016.","image":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta3588da86c8a88d0/69888a2ee20a876dd4a8fe18/heather-shumaker_credit-john-robert-williams.jpg?branch=production","url":"https://time.com/author/heather-shumaker/","sameAs":["https://x.com/heathershumaker"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```