Just a few questions:
-How many hours do you spend on one-on-one teaching your child core subjects?
-How many hours per day does your child/ren spend on core subjects?
I'm referring to hours spent on school work that do not include breaks or lunches or anything else.
I visit a few other boards on the internet that talk about homeschooling and parents will share that they make their children do anywhere from 6-8 hours of school most days!! That seems like a LOT to me. If my middle schooler works on each core subject for 30-40 minutes each day then I'm happy with that much. These people are doing at least 45 minutes to an hour on each subject. They do stuff all morning, then break for lunch and playing and then go back to school in the afternoons or give their children evening work to do. I don't do this.
If we read in the evenings then we read, but if not then we do it in the middle of the day at some point, but it's not recorded nor do I make time for it in a schedule. 
I feel like I'm doing something wrong.
I don't want to limit my children. My youngest doesn't even do quite 3 hours each day on actual sit-down, school work. I feel like a failure after reading some of the posts at these other H/S message boards.
I've been doing this H/S gig off and on since 1999 but ugh, when I read things like that it just gets me to thinking I guess. I was a little more hard core with academics back when my oldest were younger, but nowadays I'm not quite as pushy or strict. Is it the fact that I've learned over the years not to push so much in to one day or am I slacking at this point? Perhaps I don't try hard enough? I keep thinking they may be better off in school even though I know I don't want that. I can't believe after this long that I still have days like this.
-How many hours do you spend on one-on-one teaching your child core subjects?
-How many hours per day does your child/ren spend on core subjects?
I'm referring to hours spent on school work that do not include breaks or lunches or anything else.
I visit a few other boards on the internet that talk about homeschooling and parents will share that they make their children do anywhere from 6-8 hours of school most days!! That seems like a LOT to me. If my middle schooler works on each core subject for 30-40 minutes each day then I'm happy with that much. These people are doing at least 45 minutes to an hour on each subject. They do stuff all morning, then break for lunch and playing and then go back to school in the afternoons or give their children evening work to do. I don't do this.
If we read in the evenings then we read, but if not then we do it in the middle of the day at some point, but it's not recorded nor do I make time for it in a schedule. I feel like I'm doing something wrong.
I don't want to limit my children. My youngest doesn't even do quite 3 hours each day on actual sit-down, school work. I feel like a failure after reading some of the posts at these other H/S message boards.I've been doing this H/S gig off and on since 1999 but ugh, when I read things like that it just gets me to thinking I guess. I was a little more hard core with academics back when my oldest were younger, but nowadays I'm not quite as pushy or strict. Is it the fact that I've learned over the years not to push so much in to one day or am I slacking at this point? Perhaps I don't try hard enough? I keep thinking they may be better off in school even though I know I don't want that. I can't believe after this long that I still have days like this.
Overall though he's getting more like 4-5 hours depending on the day and what kinds of classes he has in the morning/evening.
