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Despite growing concern over its impact on family well-being, prior research has lacked access to fine-grained, real-time dynamics of these interactions. To bridge this gap, we present a framework that leverages naturalistic parent-child interaction data and large language models (LLMs) to analyse homework conversations at scale. In a four-week in situ study with 78 Chinese families, we collected 475 hours of audio recordings and accompanying daily surveys, capturing 602 homework sessions in everyday home settings. Our LLM-based pipeline reliably extracted and categorised parental behaviours and conflict patterns from transcribed conversations, achieving high agreement with expert annotations. The analysis revealed significant emotional shifts in parents before and after homework, 18 recurring parental behaviours and seven common conflict types, with Knowledge Conflict being the most frequent. 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