need to vent...

OK so my son Thomas is 8 years old and he does not like homework! Today is Sunday and he has been doing gobs and gobs of homework all weekend. Not to mention it is ALL due on Monday (tomorrow) and he is not even kind of done. We started at 4:00pm and it is now 8:19pm and he has yet to finish, not because he just has sooooooo much and he has been working hard all day to get it done, but because he cant sit still long enough to write even his name at the top of his page. He does have lots of homework to do, but he would have been done already if he would just do it! I have taken things away and grounded him from TV for a week. Still nothing works! I am so frustrated with him and his attitude. I tried sitting with him and helping but still nothing works. He knows how to do this. Thomas is a smart kid and I just don't understand why he refuses to do his homework. I guess I will try to think back to when I was his age and I had lots of homework. I wonder if I even did it:) Did my parents go through the same thing with me??? I'm pretty sure I remember putting up a fight just as bad as Thomas is fighting with me right now. I hope this doesn't last forever........gosh.....Grrrrr!!!!