Why did we decide to have a home school

We share more about how long we have intended to do home and why the hell, we do it just over a month from the school year.

Hi friends!

I hope you have an incredible week and I am so pumped that so many of you have registered for our Spring Forward Wellness Challenge. Don’t forget to register here – it’s completely free and it will be a lot of fun. If you are looking for a blast of motivation as we head to spring, this is the perfect way to do it!

For today’s post, I wanted to share a little more about our trip to the home and what’s going on. I mentioned the fact that we have had a rough time in the last few months and it is difficult to navigate how and what to share. I’ve always been open to you, boys when it comes to my life but The purpose of the blog has always been to share my experience; Not my children. This is a difficult line to walk, especially when they are a huge part of my life and I feel like so many of you are part of our family. At the same time, I never want them to feel that their privacy has invaded what I share here, so I have always tried to take a delicate approach to their content, especially since they are outdated.

The Nuck version is this: we eventually transferred LIV to another private school in January. We all struggled with the stunning amount of home tasks, tests and tasks. It was especially difficult with her schedule for competitive dance dance. We changed studios and cut it in half and it was still until at least midnight every night (for the last 2+ years), trying to finish everything for school. I am a huge believer in hard work and I think academic rigor has its place, but it was too much for everyone. So, it switches and flourished.

When she switched the schools, for the first time P had no big sister at school, which was a challenge for her. The pilot also retired, which was a huge transition and it began to have more frequent stomach pain. (Her stomach has been bothering her and off for years, which has always been bothering me, as she had a severe reflux as a baby and she was a bastard and a zantak, who recalled for horrifying reasons.) She saw many doctors, had an ultrasound, her stomach was considered « healthy » again. She also did CBT a week, and sometimes twice a week. Her pain and anxiety stomach became so bad that she missed many days at school, and we were trying to keep up with the crazy amount of homework, class work and tests.

The pilot was at home for retirement and taught it to the content, making sure she completed the huge packages of classrooms and took her to a test school. He returned to the training on a commercial airline and I could not understand self -parenting, work and try to keep up with all the school work she is missing, so I asked her to return to school or take her out, and she said, « Please, at home. »

I have never intended to be a teacher, but I will do everything for our babies and if that is what it needs P at the moment, I will do it.

(S)We love Nicole Mathematics Lady! Incredible Brittany Relares.)

Also worth mentioning here that I decided to do A test for feeling of food (And some other functional laboratories) and came to the root cause of some bowel problems, and its sensitivity to gluten was severe. No wonder her stomach injured:/ Since the protocols began and gluten away, stomach pain has decreased significantly.

Our plan now:

– She is on the list of waiting for the new Liv school, but will not be able to enter 5th grade 5 realistically

– Until then, we will deal with the home, and if she decides to go back, this is great and if she doesn’t want it, that’s good too.

The funny thing is that I was really cautious about home learning. Pre-Kids thought, « How the hell can a parent expect to teach their children more effectively than the teacher? »

During the girls at school, we had some extraordinary teachers who are all that teachers should be. They love children, love what they teach, they are above and beyond. But at the same time, some teachers are … not good. They say bizarre things in class, ashamed of children in front of their peers, and this happens in a private school environment all the time when you pay your child to be taught by instructors who do not like children at all. The bigger part of the time we spent the block three to four hours every night, teaching anyway because they were not taught the content during their hours.

Giving up, I also thought that children at home were probably uncomfortable because they did not have as much social interaction. The reality is that all the children at home I have met are kind, articulated, friendly and incredibly smart.

Although I have seen home schools and somehow dreams of how much fun it will be, I didn’t consider it an opportunity because I work from home, juggle customer calls, content creating, podcast interviews, zoom, IHP work, Etc. I didn’t feel that I could add more to my plate, but I didn’t even think twice about it when we got to this point. I stirred my schedule around a lot, so that the bigger part of creating my contents is done over the weekend, and the beauty for a home school is that it only takes two hours every day of this age.

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

Thank you for your kindness and you have been so amazing in the last few months. It was a rough year in many ways (this is just one of them) and being here with you all every day is a basic bright place. We finished our first full week of home school and I feel quite excited and I hope for that! I am also grateful that we need to spend some extra time together and look at all the cool home activities that Tucson offers!

xoxo

Gina