Why did we decide for home school

Sharing more about how long we intend to have homeschool, and why the hell we do it just over a month remaining since the school year.

Hi friends!

I hope you have an amazing week and I’m so exhausted that so many of you have signed up for our challenge for spring forward. Do not forget to register here – it is completely free and it will be a ton of fun. If you are looking for an explosion of motivation when we go for spring, this is a perfect way to do it!

For today’s contribution I wanted to share a little more about our home school and what is happening. I have mentioned that we have had a rough time in the last few months and it was difficult to navigate how and what to share. I have always been open with you when it comes to my life but The purpose of the blog has always been to share my experience; Not my kids. It is a difficult line to walk, especially when they are a huge part of my life and I feel that so many of you are part of our family. Likewise, I never want them to feel as if their privacy was attacked by what I share here, so I have always tried to attract a delicate approach to my content, especially when they aged.

In short, this is: in January we eventually transferred liv to another private school. We were all struggling with the degree of homework, tests and tasks. It was particularly difficult with her plan of a competitive dance. We switched the studios and shortened it for half and she was still until midnight every night (in the last 2 years or more) and tried to finish everything for school. I am a huge believer in hard work and I think academic strictness has its place, but it was too much for everyone. So she changed and prosper.

When she changed the schools, it was the first time that P was not at school, which was difficult for her. The pilot also retired, which was a huge crossing, and began to have a more frequent stomach. (Her stomach has been bothering her for years, which always feared me since she had Heavy reflux as a child And she was on Prilosec and Zantac, who was dismissed for scary reasons.) She saw more doctors, had ultrasound, her stomach was considered “healthy”, and their only proposal was to put it on PPI again. She also made CBT every week and sometimes twice a week. Her pain in the stomach and anxiety is so bad that she missed many days at school, and we tried to keep up with a crazy number of homework, class work and tests.

The pilot was home to retire and taught it content, assured that she had finished huge class packages and took her to school for tests. He returned to the training of commercial airlines and I could not understand solo parenting, work and try to keep up with all the school work that was missing, so I asked her to either decide to go back to school, or we could pull it out.

I never intended to be a teacher, but I will do anything for our children, and if it is what it needs right now, I’ll do it.

(We love Nicole The Math Lady! Amazing Rec from Brittany.)

It is also worth mentioning that I decided to make Food Sentivity Testivity (and some other functional laboratories) and got to the main cause of some intestinal problems and its sensitivity to gluten was serious. Not surprisingly, her stomach hurts:/ because she set up protocols and removed gluten, her stomach pain decreased significantly.

Our plan now:

– there is a waiting list at the new school, but it will not be able to get realistically in the 5th grade

– Until then, we will be homeschool and if he decides to return, it’s great, and if he doesn’t, it’s okay.

The funny thing is that I was really cautious in front of home schools. Pre-Kids thought, “How can a parent expect their children to teach their children more efficiently than a teacher?”

During the girl’s time at school we had several extraordinary teachers who should be teachers. They love children, love what they teach are above and behind. But at the same time some teachers are… not good. It is said that bizarre things in the classroom, shame of children in front of their peers, and this is happening in a private school environment all the time when you pay for your child to be taught instructors that seem to not like children at all. The vast majority of time we spent three to four hours of learning every night because they did not teach content during their classes.

I also thought that home children were probably embarrassing because they didn’t have so much social interactions. The fact is that all the children I have met are kind, articulated, friendly and incredibly smart.

Although I have seen friends of home school and the kind of dreaming of how fun it would be, I did not consider it a possibility because I work from home, juggling with client calls, content creation, podcast conversations, zoom, zoom IHP work, etc. I didn’t feel like I could add more things to my plate, but I didn’t even think about it twice when we got to this point. I mixed a lot of my schedule, so most of my content creation is done at the weekend and the beauty of home school is that at this age it takes only about two hours every day.

This post is very long, so I soon share another post with the curriculum we use and how we structure our days.

Thank you for your kindness and be so amazing in the last few months. It was in many ways a rough year (that’s just one of them) and being here every day with you is the main clear place. We have finished our first whole week of home school and I feel quite enthusiastic and hopeful! I am also grateful that we spend some extra time together and explore all the great activities of the homeschool that Tucson offers!

xoxo

Gina