…Homeschooling is hard. Why doesn’t he just do his work?
When I get home after spending the day at work, I’m tired. I don’t want to do
math. I don’t like math. And, common core math is icky. When the directions
tell him to write a paragraph, why do I get a sentence or two? Is the word ‘paragraph’
invisible to him? Or worse, did they not teach him what a paragraph is? Why is
the 8th grade math familiar to him but the 7th grade
social studies material is not? …
Oh, I could go on but I’ll spare you. I’m a silver lining
type of girl but I have my days where I cannot be Miss Mary Sunshine all day. I
have a good day at work to come home to find the boy has had a reasonable day
of homeschooling but the psychologist is holding me accountable for him socializing.
No, my whole day is not ruined
with this news. I’m an adult. Although, truth be told, I’m resentful of the
psychologist’s insinuation that my child isn’t socializing.
Is he socializing
as much as the psychologist would like? No, because he’s not in public school. But,
it’s not like the child doesn’t ever leave the house. He talks to people. He can order his own food when we go out. He has a good friend he
hangs out with when they both have time and he has a group of boys he games
with every month or so. He spends a lot of time with his brother and he also
spends quality time with his grandmother which is good for him. The word ‘socialization’
gives me hives (a topic for another day) so I digress.
I have to keep in mind that whining about it isn’t a bad
thing as long as I don’t do it in front of my son. Homeschooling has taught me
a lot in the past two months. I worry I’m screwing him up but there is an ‘unschooling’
period that we have to go through. I mistakenly thought we’d be through it by now
but I have my eye on the prize.
My prayer for this experience is that my son
learns to love learning and retains the information he’s presented with. I did
what I was supposed to in school – I read the material so I could take the tests
then I moved on (again, a topic for another day). I want him to learn and
retain and I’m doing my best to figure out how to make that happen for him.
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