Sharing more about how long we are aiming for homeschool, and why the good we do with a little more than a month to the left of the school year.
Hi friends!
I hope you have a stunning week and I am so drawn that so many of you have registered for the Wellness Wellness Spring Forward challenge. Make sure you are registered here – it’s completely free and it’s going to be a tone of fun. If you are looking for an explosion of incentives as we head to spring, this is the perfect way to do it!
For today’s position, I wanted to share a little more about our trip home and what’s going on. I have mentioned the fact that we have had a difficult time in recent months and it was difficult to browse how and what to share. I always have open with you when it comes to my life but The purpose of the blog was always to share my experience. Not my kids. It’s a difficult line to walk, especially when it’s a huge part of my life and I feel so many of you are part of our family. At the same time, I never want to feel that their privacy has invaded what I share here, so I always tried to follow a subtle approach to my content, especially as they have grown up.
The edition in a nutshell is this: We ended up transferring LIV to another private school in January. We were all struggling with the mind that struggles for work, tests and work. It was particularly difficult with the competition dance program. We changed the studios and cut her hours in half and was still until at least midnight every night (for the last 2+ years) trying to finish everything for school. I am a huge loyal to hard work and I think academic rigor is in place, but it was too much for everyone. So it changed and flourishes.
When she changed schools, it was the first time P had not had her big SIS at school, which was difficult for her. The pilot also left, which was a huge transition, and began to have a more frequent stomach. (Her stomach has annoyed her for years, always worried me, since she had severe reflux as a baby and was in Prilosec and Zantac, which has been revoked for frightening reasons). He also did cbt weekly, and sometimes twice a week. His pain and stress on the stomach were so bad that he lost many days of school and we were here trying to keep up with the crazy amount of work, class and testing.
The pilot was home to retirement and teaching her the content, making sure to complete the huge class packages and transfer it to school for testing. She had returned to the training of commercial airlines and I could not understand solo parental care, work and try to keep up with all the missing school projects, so I asked her to either choose to return to school or we could get it out and said.
I never intended to be a teacher, but I will do anything for our babies and if it is what I need now, I’ll do it.
(We love Nicole the Math Lady! An amazing REC from Brittany.)
It is also worth mentioning here that I decided to do a Food Protection Test (and some other functional laboratories) and reached the main cause of certain bowel problems and gluten’s sensitivity was serious. It is not strange that her stomach hurt:/ Since the protocols began and gluten removed, her stomach pain has declined significantly.
Our plan now:
– is on the waiting list for LIV’s new school but realistically will not be able to get in up to 5th grade
– We will find ourselves and if he decides to come back, that’s great, and if he doesn’t want, that’s okay.
The funny thing is that I was really cautious about domestic education. Pre-children thought myself: “How can a parent wait to teach their children more effectively than a teacher?”
During the girls at school, we had some excellent teachers who should be all teachers. They love kids, they love what they teach, they’re over and over. But at the same time, some teachers are … not good. They say strange things in the classroom, shame children in front of their peers, and this is the case in a private school environment all the time, when you pay for your child to be taught by trainers who do not seem to like children at all. An overwhelming majority of the year, we spent three to four hour blocks each night teaching anyway because the content was not taught during their classes.
Growing up, I also believed that children who had been in school education were probably embarrassed because they did not have such a great social interaction. The reality is that all the kids I have met are kind, articulated, friendly and incredibly smart.
Although I have seen Homeschool friends and the kind of daydreaming about how fun it would be, I did not consider it probability because I work from home, juggling customer calls, content creation, podcast interviews, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, Work Ihp, etc. I didn’t feel I could add other things to my plate, but I didn’t think about it twice when we got to this point. I have mixed my schedule around many, so that most of my content is being created on the weekend and the beauty for homeschool is that it takes only two hours each day at this age.
This post is already very big, so I will share another post soon with the curriculum we use and how we structure our days.
Thank you for your kindness and amazing in recent months. It was a difficult time in many ways (that’s just one of them) and being here with you every day is an important bright spot. We finished the first whole week of Homeschool and I feel very excited and optimistic about it! I am also grateful to be able to spend some time together and look at all the cool homeschool activities offered by Tucson!
Xoxo
Tiger
