One day I will spend time telling you my cancer story... meantime I want to build other moms that think they cant keep homeschooling through trials.
Family pushed me to put my children in school, there was no way they could learn while I fought cancer. I stood my ground, I was not throwing my children into public school. They knew home this was their routine. If they were in school I wont go pull them out. Our family was already thrown a wrench, why would I turn the rest of their security away from them.
I did change some of our books to more self driven. If you can ever get a boy to want to pick up a book on their own and do their work, lol.
Our deal was I will not worry about certain subjects, if they did two things on their own. First was Math and the other was reading comp. My one son used Teaching Textbook and they other two used developmental Math. Then all 3 were to read their SRA each day and answer the comp questions. History was taught many days with documentaries on the history channel, science is everywhere.
Living daily life taught them more then any book can, may children took turns at the hospital mostly my daughter. She has learned so much about nursing and caring for her mom. They have been to ct scan, dr appts and labs. When they went to work with their dad, they learned customer service, drywall, tiling, demo, stud wall building, and even concert.
Beyond this things they learned meal planning, budget making, laundry, cleaning and time management.
As we cross this next bridge, I have decided they can read to me. So we will be doing Anne of Green Gables book study. All three will still have SRA, all will be using teaching texbooks, Winning with Writing which I have called in Aunt and Mimi to help they both are better writing then I am. Winning with writing is also student directed but again if it is going to be done neatly and correctly then adult involvement is needed. There are many ways to incorporate school into daily living. I didn't realize how much they were learning until we were sitting and watching Jeapordy...... They blew me away what they have picked up.........
Relax.....and when days are good spend time loving your children not fighting over things.....
My daughter said I changed, I spend time playing and talking and listening. Not just yelling bout getting things done. Pray with them, walk, talk and laugh....Make memories that mean something to everyone.....
