What??

Now what is this woman trying to tell me?  Of course I am in-sync with my child.  I am home all day, and I know him or her better then anyone. 

But….

Do you really?

Who am I to tell you anything? Well, it may just be that I had that slap in the face, you don’t know it all type of occasion recently.

We were working on an assignment about being thankful.  My son looked up at me and said, I feel appreciated when I get hugs.  But, not just the good bye hugs.  The hugs I give when they don’t expect it.  I had kind of stopped that, because, I had a feeling that he felt he was too old for them.  However, I just learned that he missed them and in return had started feeling a bit un-appreciated. 

Yep, broke my heart.

This is not the only time, that I haven’t been in-sync with my child though.  The fussy two year old, why is he fussy?  The eight year old who seems to not listen to a thing I say… Why?

Yes, I believe when our children and us as parents are not getting along, that we have gotten out of sync.  Is it the children’s fault?  No, we must work to figure out what is going on with them.  We must keep the communication lines open. 

As homeschool parents, we can fall into the trap that we know them, so we are obviously in-sync with them.  However, that is not true.  We can fall in to a rut and not see what is happening right in front of our faces.  That is a bad place to be.  Because the entire family suffers.  Everyone tends to live in frustration until you figure it out. 

How do you figure it out?  Well, it seems that things just pretty much speak for them selves.  When you have as many or more bad days then you have good, when you have one child that you can’t seem to communicate with, when you would rather stay in bed then get up—and it’s not because the baby kept you up all night.

It can also be when you feel God really calling you to make a change.

Whatever it is, don’t be afraid to admit to yourself and your family that you know that you need to work on it.  Listen to your heart and work to get back in sync. 

Have you ever noticed that you were out of sync with someone in your family?  How did you approach it?

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