Home*School*Home: Still working.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Still working.

I'm working and I'm studying. It doesn't leave much time for blogging or any of my hobbies. I did get to go out with my cousin last weekend and do some shopping, just recreational shopping, not shopping-shopping. :-) We bought some food for our weird diets and then had a weird diet-compliant lunch out. It was great.

Youngest son has had the flu this week and the girl thought she was getting it too, but she just had a cold. I'm still going to work at a hospital in the midst of this corona virus scare, but I'm just not thinking about it that much. I don't have time to worry about that. I'm just trying to survive my job at the intense level it is right now. I'm trying also not to think about the future too much because I don't know if I will be able to pass the coding test and become a coder and I don't know what I want to do if I don't. I don't really want to stay where I am because I don't want to be pulled over constantly to do my co-worker's job. I had've already had to do it 3 days in the last 2 weeks and I'm going in today for a day of it and also tomorrow. Then back to my regular job for Thursday and Friday. I am not happy but I am going through the motions, hanging in there and waiting for things to change. They always do. If I do get to start coding, I might be able to work at home and I feel like that's what I want, though I will miss the people I work with now. I like all of them and they have been good to me.

Sigh. It's always somethng. I had such a great job and then I got put into a position of subbing for my coworkers job which I hate with my whole being and everything changed. I also just found out from my supervisor that they're not going to hire anyone to help, just depend on me to work all the time. I am going to have to put my foot down about that. I need a break.

Anyway, nothing about homeschooling here. Sorry. We're not doing that anymore. I miss it. I have found that all my vacation plans seem like good homeschool field trips, the museum, the sculpture garden, the other museum .. :-)

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Homeschooling Advice.

1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

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