Share more on the duration of the school at home and why we do it with a little over a month of the school year.
Hi friends!
I hope you spend an incredible week and that I am so pumped that many of you have registered with our wellness challenge Spring Forward. Make sure you register here – it’s completely free and it’s going to be fun. If you are looking for an explosion of motivation while we head for spring, this is the ideal way to do it!
For today’s post, I wanted to share a little more on our trip home and what’s going on. I alluded to the fact that we have had a difficult period in recent months and that it was difficult to navigate how and what to share. I have always been opened with you with regard to my life, but The blog’s goal has always been to share my experience; Not my children. It is a delicate line to walk, especially when they are a large part of my life and I have the impression that many of you are part of our family. At the same time, I never want them to have the impression that their private life has been invaded by what I share here, so I have always tried to adopt a delicate approach to my content, especially as you get older.
The version in summary is as follows: we ended up transferring Liv to another private school in January. We were all struggling with the astounding quantity of homework, tests and missions. It was particularly difficult with his competition dance program. We have changed studios and cut her hours by half, and she was still standing up to at least midnight every night (in the past 2 years) trying to finish everything for school. I am a great supporter of hard work and I think that academic rigor has its place, but it was too much for everyone. So she changed and prospered.
When she changed schools, it was the first time that P did not do her big sister at school, which was difficult for her. The pilot also retired, which was a huge transition, and she began to have more frequent stomach aches. (Her stomach has been disturbed for years, which has always worried me because she had a serious reflux as a baby and was on Prilosec and Zantac, who was recalled for terrifying reasons.) She saw several doctors, had an ultrasound, her stomach was considered “healthy”, and their only suggestion was to put it again on a PPI. She also made CBT every week, and sometimes twice a week. Her stomach pain and anxiety have become so bad that she missed several days of school, and we were trying here to follow the crazy amount of homework, classroom work and tests.
The pilot was at home for retirement and taught him the content, ensuring that she finished the huge work packages in class and take him to school for tests. He had returned to the training of commercial airlines and I could not understand solo parenting, work and trying him to follow all the school work that was missing, so I asked him to choose to return to school or to withdraw it, and she said: “Please educate at home.”
I have never intended to be a teacher, but I will do anything for our babies and if that’s what P needs right now, I’m going to do it.
(We love Nicole the mathematical lady! An incredible rebuilding of Brittany.)
It is also worth mentioning here that I decided to make a Food detectivity test (and some other functional laboratories) and have reached the deep cause of certain intestinal problems, and its gluten sensitivity was severe. No wonder her stomach suffers: / Since she started protocols and removed gluten, her stomach pains have reduced considerably.
Our plan now:
– She is on the waiting list of the new Liv school but will not be able to make in a way before the 5th year
– We go home until then and if she decides to go back, it’s great, and if she doesn’t want, it’s ok too.
What is funny is that I was really wary of home teaching. The pre-Kids thought to me: “How can the devil a parent expect to teach their children more effectively than a teacher?”
During girls at school, we had extraordinary teachers who are all that teachers should be. They love children, like what they teach, they are above and beyond. But at the same time, some teachers are not good. They say bizarre things in class, shame children in front of their peers, and this happens all the time in a private school environment, when you pay so that your child is taught by instructors who do not seem to love children at all. A large majority of the time, we spent the block of three to four hours every night by teaching anyway, because they did not learn the content during their lessons.
Growing up, I also thought that children at home were probably annoying because they don’t have as much social interaction. The reality is that all the children educated at home I met are nice, articulated, friendly and incredibly intelligent.
Even if I saw friends at home and a little dream IHP work, etc. I did not feel like I could add something else to my plate, but I didn’t even think about it twice when we got to this point. I mixed my schedule a lot so that most of my content creation is made during the weekend, and Homeschool’s beauty is that it only takes two hours a day at this age.
This message is already super long, so I will soon share another article with the program we use and how we structure our days.
Thank you for your kindness and if you are so incredible in recent months. It was a difficult year in many ways (it is only one of them) and being here with you every day is a major light point. We finished our first full week of home school and I feel quite excited and spanning! I am also grateful that we can spend an additional time together and that we examine all the cool activities at home that Tucson offers!
xoxo
Gina
