sharing extra about how lengthy we intend to homeschool, and why the heck we’re doing it with just a bit over a month left of the varsity yr.
Hello pals!
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For right this moment’s put up, I wished to share a bit bit extra about our homeschool journey and what’s happening. I’ve alluded to the truth that we’ve had a tough time the previous few months and it’s been troublesome to navigate how and what to share. I’ve all the time been open with you guys on the subject of my life, however the aim of the weblog has all the time been to share MY expertise; not my youngsters’s. It’s a tough line to stroll, particularly after they’re an enormous a part of my life and I really feel like so a lot of you’re part of our household. On the similar, I by no means need them to really feel like their privateness has been invaded by what I share right here, so I’ve all the time tried to take a fragile strategy to my content material, particularly as they’ve gotten older.
The nutshell model is that this: we ended up transferring Liv to a different non-public college in January. We had been all scuffling with the mind-boggling quantity of homework, checks, and assignments. It was particularly exhausting along with her competitors dance schedule. We switched studios and reduce her hours in half, and he or she was nonetheless up till not less than midnight each evening (for the previous 2+ years) making an attempt to complete every part for varsity. I’m an enormous believer in exhausting work and I feel educational rigor has its place, however it was an excessive amount of for everybody. So, she switched and has been thriving.
When she switched colleges, it was the primary time P hasn’t had her large sis at college, which was difficult for her. The Pilot additionally retired, which was an enormous transition, and he or she began to have extra frequent stomachaches. (Her abdomen has bothered her on and off for years, which has all the time frightened me since she had extreme reflux as a child and was on Prilosec and Zantac, which has been recalled for terrifying causes.) She noticed a number of medical doctors, had an ultrasound, her abdomen was deemed “wholesome,” and their solely suggestion was to place her on a PPI once more. She was additionally doing CBT weekly, and typically twice every week. Her abdomen ache and anxiousness bought so unhealthy that she missed many days of faculty, and we had been right here making an attempt to maintain up with the insane quantity of homework, classwork, and checks.
The Pilot was dwelling for retirement and was instructing her the content material, ensuring she accomplished the massive packets of classwork, and taking her to high school for checks. He had return to industrial airline coaching and I couldn’t fathom solo parenting, working, and making an attempt to maintain up with the entire college work she was lacking, so I requested her to both select to return to high school or we may pull her out, and he or she mentioned, “Please homeschool me.”
I by no means supposed to be a instructor, however I’ll do something for our infants and if it’s what P wants proper now, I’m going to do it.
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Additionally price mentioning right here that I made a decision to do a Meals Sentivity Take a look at (and another purposeful labs) and bought to the foundation explanation for some intestine points, and her gluten sensitivity was extreme. No marvel her abdomen was hurting :/ Since she began the protocols and eliminated gluten, her abdomen ache has drastically diminished.
Our plan now:
– She’s on the waitlist for Liv’s new college however realistically received’t have the ability to get in till fifth grade
– We’ll homeschool till then and if she decides to return, that’s nice, and if she doesn’t need to, that’s okay, too.
The humorous factor is that I was actually cautious of homeschooling. Pre-kids thought to myself, “How on earth can a guardian count on to show their children extra successfully than a instructor?”
Through the ladies’ time at school, we’ve had some extraordinary academics who’re every part academics must be. They love children, love what they’re instructing, they’re above and past. However on the similar time, some academics are…not good. They are saying weird issues at school, disgrace youngsters in entrance of their friends, and this occurs in a personal college atmosphere ALL the time, when you find yourself paying on your child to be taught by instructors who don’t appear to love youngsters in any respect. A overwhelming majority of the time, we spent the three to 4 hour block every evening instructing anyway, as a result of they weren’t taught the content material throughout their lessons.
Rising up, I additionally thought that homeschooled children had been in all probability awkward as a result of they don’t have as a lot social interplay. The truth is that the entire homeschooled children I’ve met are variety, articulate, pleasant, and extremely good.
Regardless that I’ve seen pals homeschool and type of daydreamed about how how enjoyable it might be, I didn’t take into account it a risk as a result of I make money working from home, juggling consumer calls, content material creation, podcast interviews, Zooms, IHP work, and so on. I didn’t really feel like I may add one other issues to my plate, however I didn’t even assume twice about it once we bought thus far. I’ve shuffled my schedule round quite a bit so that the majority of my content material creation is finished over the weekend, and the sweetness about homeschool is that it solely takes round two hours every day at this age.
This put up is already tremendous lengthy, so I’ll share one other put up quickly with the curriculum we’re utilizing and the way we construction our days.
Thanks on your kindness and being so wonderful over the previous few months. It’s been a tough yr in some ways (this is only one of them) and being right here with you all every day is a significant shiny spot. We completed our first full week of homeschool and I’m feeling fairly excited and hopeful about it! I’m additionally grateful that we get to spend some further time collectively and are wanting into the entire cool homeschool actions that Tucson provides!
xoxo
Gina
