So here is a subject coming in pretty hot. 🙂 Anyways I’m over stepping around things as I have been my whole life of fear to offend anyone. So here we go.. Subject is about Homeschooling.
Yes so I homeschool my son, I have for 7 months now and it wasn’t the plan. As much as I always loved the idea I just didn’t see how it was going to happen being divorced and all- It’s a longer story. But now I’m homeschooling my son who is 9 years old.
Is it easy? NO! Is it worth it? Absolutely!
My son never liked school from the first day his little lit up smile sunk and tears started streaming down his cheeks. All the other kids were excited – my boy was not. Immediately he felt wrong and that was the start of what was 3 hard years. The story is long and the details for now not relevant but my son finally after having bitterly manifested – begged – spoken about it for 3 years was going to be homeschooled by his mom.. ME! Uhm.. that’s hard – its hard even when you know its the right choice. I researched a lot and joined groups of other homeschoolers trying to figure all the details out and how to do this. Feeling overwhelmed with how I would keep up my job and also do this on the side.
No-one said it was going to be easy.
But no one told me it was going to be this hard.. lol.. no but really the hard part wasn’t so much the school but find a way in a structure we had to create. Becoming the teacher and the mother when you want to be neither at times. 🙂 So here we are still figuring it out. At the starts my son was suffering a lot of trauma and stress from the school so we spent the first few months really just coming down from that.
I could say the world school even home school without him starting to cry. He was so traumatised by learning and it was so sad. I had a 8 year old that hated learning! WHAT!? Learning is natural and all kind want it and my kid before school was so curious about everything wanting to understand and learn and now he cried just thinking of it. What have they done to him I thought.. Will it ever go away. It will and it has he just needed a break.
Now months and moth later he is at the stage where learning seems less daunting and we can actually look into what he is interested in. I found great resources online and online schools that I find helped a ton making this happen. I need time to work too and I can’t sit there and spend every second with him.
So a few that I can highly recommend and I’m sure later the list will be longer ut for now it is:
We use both and they are fun great ways to help your child learn. And no I’m not affiliated with either I am just a mom figuring it all out and so can you. 🙂
So that was so far my little homeschool post. Short and sweet. 🙂 If you like me want to find a way to live a different life and connect with others and maybe even homeschooling. Connect with us in our little growing Facebook community! 🙂 FACEBOOK COMMUNITY HERE
HUGS
xx
Sandra