Share more about how long we intend to train homeschool, and why the hell we do it with a little more than a month after the school year.
Hello friends!
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For today’s post I wanted a little more about our journey home and what’s going on. I pointed out to the fact that we have had a hard time in the past few months and it was difficult to navigate how and what we should share. I’ve always been open to you when it comes to my life, but The purpose of the blog has always been to share my experiences. Not my children. It is a tricky line to run, especially if they are a large part of my life and I have the feeling that many of them are part of our family. Likewise, I never want you to feel that your privacy was expressed by what I share here. That’s why I always tried to follow a delicate approach for my content, especially since they got older.
The Nutshell version is: We transferred LIV to another private school in January. We all had to fight with the stunning amount of homework, tests and tasks. It was particularly difficult with her competition schedule. We changed the studios and cut their hours in half. I am a big follower of hard work and I think academic strict has its place, but it was too much for everyone. So she changed and bloomed.
When she changed school, it was the first time that P did not have her big sister at school, which was a challenge for her. The pilot also retired, which was a big transition, and it started more frequently. (She has bothered her stomach for years, which has always worried me since she had it Heavy return flow as a baby And was on Prilosec and Zantac, which was called back for terrible reasons.) She saw several doctors, had an ultrasound, her stomach was classified as “healthy”, and her only proposal was to put her on a PPI again. She also made CBT weekly and sometimes twice a week. Her stomach pain and fear became so bad that she missed many school days, and we tried to keep up with the insane amount of homework, class work and tests.
The pilot was retired at home and taught her the content, made sure that she completed the huge packages of class work and brought her to school. He was back to the Commercial Airline training and I was unable to fathom, work and tried to keep up with all the school work, and I asked her to either return to school, or we could pull her out, and she said: “Please homeschool me.”
I never had to be a teacher, but I will do something for our babies and if that’s what P needs, I’ll do it.
((We love Nicole, the math lady! An amazing Rec from Brittany.))
Also worth mentioning here that I decided to do one Food Sentivity Test (and some other functional laboratories) and the basic cause of some intestinal problems, and their gluten sensitivity was serious. No wonder that her stomach hurt:/ Since she started the log and removed Gluten, her stomach pain has decreased significantly.
Our plan now:
– She is on the waiting list for LIVS New School, but realistically only in the 5th grade
– We will teach at home until then and if she decides to go back, it’s great, and if she doesn’t want to, that’s okay.
The funny thing is that I used to be careful before school lessons. Vorkid thought to me: “How about everything in the ground can a parent expect to teach his children more effectively than a teacher?”
During the school days of the girls at school, we had some extraordinary teachers who are everything that should be teachers. They love children, love what they teach, they are over and beyond. At the same time, some teachers are … not good. They say bizarre things in class, shape children in front of their colleagues, and this is constantly happening in a private school environment when they pay for their child to be informed of trainers that the children do not like at all. In great time we missed the three to four hours of block every evening because the content was not taught them during their lessons.
When I grew up, I also thought that Homeschooled children were probably uncomfortable because they didn’t have that much social interaction. The reality is that all children I met are friendly, articulated, friendly and unbelievable.
Although I saw friends homeschool and somehow dreamed of how much fun it would be, I didn’t consider it a possibility because I work from home, customer calls, content creation, podcast interviews, zoom, juggling customers, content creation, juggling, and zooms, zooms, juggling. IHP work, etc. I didn’t have the feeling that I could add something to my plate, but I didn’t even think about it twice when we got to this point. I mixed my schedule a lot so that the largest part of my content is carried out over the weekend, and the beauty about Homeschool is that it only takes about two hours a day at this age.
This post is already super long, so I will soon share another post with the curriculum that we use and how we structure our days.
Thank you so great for your friendliness and in the past few months. It was a hard year in many ways (this is just one of them) and it is a great ray of hope to be with you every day. We ended our first full week of the homeschool and I am quite excited and hopeful of it! I am also grateful that we can spend a little more time together and see all the cool activities at home that offers Tucson!
Xoxo
Gina
