I live in an area with very few other homeschoolers. I've just found one mother who homeschools who lives 20 minutes away. My DD is almost 5 and was in kindy a couple of days a week and they all moved on to this older kids school-type group so she did. She has friends there and is happy. However, we just learned she got a "time out" for choosing to play with toys instead of watch the TV with the rest of the kids.
I know, it's revolting. It made me feel physically sick.
Apparently, they were watching a fellow student and dd was being "disruptive" by playing with toys. She's only four! I have NEVER given her time out, we are non punitive here. They also reward for "randomly caught good behavior". It just sickens me. I had no idea she was going to a place like that and I am currently in discussions with the director. DD is not to be rewarded or punished. Although that sounds fair, she is now left out from her peers who get rewards. I don't know which is worse.
Now I'm stuck because she likes it. She has a lot of friends there and she was never a social person. She was very cautious and shy and this has really helped her socially. But I HATE it. I don't want to force her to leave, and honestly, she'd do whatever but I don't want to take her from her friends.
I want to homeschool, but I'm not cut for it. I think. And there are no friend options here, well, not that I can find yet. I have to be honest and say that I have no idea what to do with her all day. She's always asking me to play and I get sick of it really quickly. She's an only child, and may remain that way. I was like an only child cos my brothers were at least 11 years older than me. I never played with my parents. They had a definite role and I liked it that way, my mother was a true "nurturer" but not playmate and I became a very imaginative person. I feel like her play mate and I don't know how to reverse that, cos now it drives me
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Socially stuck. Creatively stumped. Feeling pressured all day to 'perform". How do you do it? I really want to do it. We are moving to our farm next year and I want to raise a homeschooled farm girl but I have no tools.
Thanks for any help.
I know, it's revolting. It made me feel physically sick.
Apparently, they were watching a fellow student and dd was being "disruptive" by playing with toys. She's only four! I have NEVER given her time out, we are non punitive here. They also reward for "randomly caught good behavior". It just sickens me. I had no idea she was going to a place like that and I am currently in discussions with the director. DD is not to be rewarded or punished. Although that sounds fair, she is now left out from her peers who get rewards. I don't know which is worse.
Now I'm stuck because she likes it. She has a lot of friends there and she was never a social person. She was very cautious and shy and this has really helped her socially. But I HATE it. I don't want to force her to leave, and honestly, she'd do whatever but I don't want to take her from her friends.
I want to homeschool, but I'm not cut for it. I think. And there are no friend options here, well, not that I can find yet. I have to be honest and say that I have no idea what to do with her all day. She's always asking me to play and I get sick of it really quickly. She's an only child, and may remain that way. I was like an only child cos my brothers were at least 11 years older than me. I never played with my parents. They had a definite role and I liked it that way, my mother was a true "nurturer" but not playmate and I became a very imaginative person. I feel like her play mate and I don't know how to reverse that, cos now it drives me
: .Socially stuck. Creatively stumped. Feeling pressured all day to 'perform". How do you do it? I really want to do it. We are moving to our farm next year and I want to raise a homeschooled farm girl but I have no tools.
Thanks for any help.
