First I would like to apologize for not getting my Nature Study Tuesday post up. Our twenty month old has been having some extremely fussy days and nights, and I simply lost track of my days. Also, as you read below you will see that things are a bit rough in our homeschool. My days have been full trying to get on top of these things.
Here I am again, telling you that our homeschool is not all rosy, well behaved, perfect happy children. Nope, not in our home. Are they in your home? Ok, really, if they are, please, don’t tell me about it, ok?
Over the last three weeks, we have faced homeschooling challenges that would drive a mom of one nuts, let alone a mom of six. I have had one student that has refused to complete the work assigned in a respectable manner. This student has incomplete work, work they never did, and work that was done sloppy or not to the best of their ability. I have one student who has decided that school is too hard. While trying to help these two students understand and push their their poor attitudes, I have let the toddlers rule the house. See, there is just sometime that there is not enough of me to go around.
The child who has not completed their work, is to have all the work completed with at least an 80% grade by Friday evening, per our principal’s (AKA the Hot Guy-my hubby) request. The child that has decided school is too hard is working on lots of review items to help build confidence. The unruly toddlers, are expected to sort through their quiet activities and have them in their proper locations by Friday.
Obviously, I am to monitor all this activity and give advice and feedback as needed to encourage them to get all this done. This is also known here as homeschool boot camp.
Now through all this, I felt knocked down and like a failure. Actually, Monday evening I attended Mom’s Night Out with the homeschool group I am a part of. I was extremely encouraged to find that I was not the only mom struggling with this at this time. That transparency of the other moms, helped me to be able to better push my students to meet the expectations that lay before us. I also, was able to admit, that I had been failing as a homeschool mom, though not because I wasn’t trying, but because I was at a loss, and ready to give in. I let Satan grasp my thoughts.
Without God in your school, you are setting yourself up for a failure. Why do we allow this to happen? Are we tired, worn out, or? How do you get a handle on these things? Have you been here?
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I think we’ve had the same 3 weeks!! I’ve been sick, which is a rarity. Independent work was “suppose” to be happening and come to find out it hasn’t been. They aren’t suppose to ask to play the Wii on the weekends of school work isn’t done, passing grades, corrections done, etc. Then to find out they took advantage of me being sick makes me wonder where I went wrong in teaching them to use their integrity at all times. The house is a disaster. I feel we are totally behind and trying my best not to think I have to get everyone all “caught up” when in actually as homeschoolers we just need to pick up where we left off. Sometimes that thought helps lol Last week independent work was suppose to be accomplished as I joined the EXPO for the week around eye Dr appts. This is a new week and I always have to remind myself “this is the day (week) the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.”
Blessings your week goes well and the kids get done what needs to be done. HUGS
I think we all have those times. Some weeks I feel that I accomplish nothing. We hosted a dinner meeting at our farm Monday night. The last few weeks have been total preparation for that in addition to our regular duties. I had the house “presentable” in case someone needed to come in. Today is Wednesday and “presentable” is no longer recognizable. I know God doesn’t give us more than we can handle, but sometimes I wish he didn’t trust me so much!
Thank you for posting this. I only have 3 kiddos, 8yrs to 1yr… but there are days I feel like a total failure. Not only do I feel like I didn’t accomplish school as it needed to be done, but the house is a disaster and dinner was burnt and the hubby always smiles and says its all okay because he doesn’t know how I do it all. However, I still feel pretty inadequate at times. God is really dealing with me on what is important and you post is nice to see others have the same issues!!
Blessings!
Thanks Joy for understanding. I appreciate you admitting to a tough week too. The more we all share that homeschooling is not all icing on the cake, the more we will be able to support each other. I plan to work on next week’s Nature Study Tuesday this afternoon during rest time-assuming I don’t sleep three hours like I did yesterday. lol
I have had the same kind of week. It is good to know that I am not alone. Thank you for sharing about the week you have had.
I did miss you not getting up Tuesday Nature Study. I had a post ready to link up!
However, I do understand that homeschool and children come first.
Have a blessed day!
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