Or maybe they do and I just haven't read it.
Either way, why is it that homeschoolers have this unspoken agreement to never complain, reconsider or have moments of doubt (out aloud that is)?
Recently I have caught myself thinking alot..."If only you were at school then I ..."
*would not have to hear you fight with your brother allllllll day
*wouldn't be interrupted with "Muuuuuuuuum" every few minutes
*would not have to negotiate why I need you to come to the shops to get essential groceries
*would not have to hear lengthy monologues detailing LEGO, sometimes so lengthy they go from dawn till dusk!! :O
Of course for all that to be possible I'd also have to wish to be ignorant to the many, many cons of schooling and to be totally switched off to my instinctive call to meet my child's needs. It's a double edged blade!
Am I the only one who keeps the bad days secret so you aren't met with the totally unhelpful advice of "Why don't you just send them to school?" or "School never did me any harm" ??
Of course there are lots of happy, positive learning moments that have been going on that I could be blogging about but this has been rolling around in my head for awhile now and I'm sure now we are living in such close proximity to the school (even if it is totally a stepping stone for the local kids to get into juvenile detention centres) makes this whole "school being the easy option" thing harder to shake.
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I know what you're saying. As we speak I'm fighting a loosing battle for domestic peace ... two kids who want to turn every task into a noisy mess (yeah, I know it's fun).
I don't deliberately keep the worst bad days secret. It's more a matter of surviving them first (sometimes with the help or shoulder of whichever Mum or friend is around at the time, if I'm lucky). When it's over my perspective has often changed. I sometimes share what I've learned from the hard days, but often it just becomes part of who I am.
Every day is a balance of survival and thriving, and takes much more energy than I knew I had. I rarely think school's an easy option though ... too many uncertainties, limitations and difficult decisions.
Smiles,
Vanessa
In some ways, yeah. I don't blog about them because I don't want the blog to be a reflection of the bad times - I prefer it to be a positive reflection. I usually whinge privately :)
I hear you. Not that I am up to the homeschooling stage yet, but can empathise. Support from people who aren't quite on the supportive path of what your doing can be hard to come by, and the last thing you want to do is give them an opportunity to say those dreaded 4 words... I told you so.
We all have good days and not so good ones. Sending love, you rock.x
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