Hi all,
I'm new here, and couldn't believe there was a thread so specific- how exciting! There's other moms in my shoes!! I have 4 children, ages 7 mos, 3 years, 5.75 years and 8.5 years. My oldest started school this year at our local public school- small town, rural, teacher is an acquaintance of ours, we know lots of kids there, etc. I felt pretty OK with the decision- trying to homeschool and take care of 4 small children just felt overwhelming to me, so we thought we try school. All has been going pretty well, except the novelty of it is wearing out for me. The work is suddenly getting harder (she's in a gr.3/4 mixed class), homework is creeping in more and more and the whole early-to-bed, early-to-rise routine is getting old for me. Making healthy bento boxes every day, practicing spelling...and math facts...and mandatory reading each night- it's all feeling a bit much! I find myself longing for the good old hs'ing days sometimes, when we could hang out and read at night and time didn't really matter, when I didn't have to deal with math quizzes coming home with low scores (saxon is very diffrent from public school math, i'm finding out real quick) and when i could sign her up for a colonial cooking class and count it as history for the week! Does anyone else ever feel mixed about their decision? I wouldn't pull her out- we're in for the year unless something goes really wrong. She is really having a good time- it's me that feels all mixed up. Her teacher and I have gotten to be fairly good friends- the kids all do sports together (hers and mine) and we chat a lot, but it just feels weird to surrender all this control to someone else and watch things get taught differenly than i would do it. sigh. I just needed some warm thoughts and support- seems to be a good group here and maybe someone else feels the same.
I'm new here, and couldn't believe there was a thread so specific- how exciting! There's other moms in my shoes!! I have 4 children, ages 7 mos, 3 years, 5.75 years and 8.5 years. My oldest started school this year at our local public school- small town, rural, teacher is an acquaintance of ours, we know lots of kids there, etc. I felt pretty OK with the decision- trying to homeschool and take care of 4 small children just felt overwhelming to me, so we thought we try school. All has been going pretty well, except the novelty of it is wearing out for me. The work is suddenly getting harder (she's in a gr.3/4 mixed class), homework is creeping in more and more and the whole early-to-bed, early-to-rise routine is getting old for me. Making healthy bento boxes every day, practicing spelling...and math facts...and mandatory reading each night- it's all feeling a bit much! I find myself longing for the good old hs'ing days sometimes, when we could hang out and read at night and time didn't really matter, when I didn't have to deal with math quizzes coming home with low scores (saxon is very diffrent from public school math, i'm finding out real quick) and when i could sign her up for a colonial cooking class and count it as history for the week! Does anyone else ever feel mixed about their decision? I wouldn't pull her out- we're in for the year unless something goes really wrong. She is really having a good time- it's me that feels all mixed up. Her teacher and I have gotten to be fairly good friends- the kids all do sports together (hers and mine) and we chat a lot, but it just feels weird to surrender all this control to someone else and watch things get taught differenly than i would do it. sigh. I just needed some warm thoughts and support- seems to be a good group here and maybe someone else feels the same.
