If there is still anybody out there, sometimes visiting my blog, I am still here somewhere. Drowning in the too-much-to-do, too-little-time-ocean. It seems as if I am not really able to juggle all the balls I thought I would be able to. So I have to cut down, here and there – apparently, mostly here (blogging).
I am smack bang in the middle of my third year and it is quite a lot of work. Trying to homeschool Laura at the same time, is a real feat, and sometimes I don’t think I am really coping. But, luckily, I have a wonderfull husband and he is really helping a lot. I must admit though, I am continuously confronted with my own rigidity. I’m starting to realize I really have a lot of preconceived notions of what a child is suppose to learn, and trying to fit it all in is impossible. And then, Nestus don’t have the same preconceived ideas, I think he just have fewer ideas, so I get quite upset when he helped her, and I don’t think it’s up to standard (my bizarrely high standard).
So, while my little girl is enjoying herself thoroughly, I struggle a bit more. She has already done tonnes more than the kids in school, but I still worry that I am harming her future with this silly homeschooling business.
Okay, now I have to run again, I’m writing a Managerial Accounting test tonight and Laura is already working full steam. She spends the day at the university campus today, with Nestus in the Library, but I still work with her whenever I have openings between class.
Ah, and I decided to seriously try losing some weight. Not only on my conscience, more on my hips
Not easy…
Hi, ek lees nog – antwoord nie noodwendig nie – maar lees nog – elke keer as ek die volledige kyk na e-posse en blogs ding doen.
By: Saroné on March 10, 2009
at 1:10 pm
I still visit when you post!! btw…I homeschooled for years. Two girls we did all the way through high school. I found out that in reality there was only a handful of things they needed to really know.
1. How to Read
2. How to explain what they read both in written and oral form.
3. How to research something.
4. Math to a given level of what they intended to do for a living.
5. How to motivate themselves to learn something.
If you teach this….they will be able to go to college and excel beyond most everyone there.
I had to remind myself again and again when I just felt guilty most of the time.
Both girls are doing splendidly. One is a computer programmer (self taught) and the other is a science teacher graduated through Penn State.
I say this not to brag…but to give you hope. Nothing was harder than homeschooling for me so I have a soft spot for others who are doing it.
By: Barb on March 10, 2009
at 8:31 pm
Barb,
I am far too driven, and she would have suffered. As they say :”Thank God for small graces” even if the grace is a mother that is too busy to be too involved.
Thank you, it really does give me hope to know I don’t have to do everything. Laura is already doing nearly everything at her own pace, and not too slow a pace too. I just don’t think I hace totally given up my own competitiveness, which really flourished while I was in school. We joined a support group and a legal advice group and everybody tells us that people that were homeschoolled in the end are more successfull / responsible/ balanced etc. etc. But here in SA it is not such an accepted thing yet and if the education system was not such a mess, we would never even have thought about homeschoolling. So, luckily I’m very busy, or my poor eleven year old girl would have been ready for grade 12 within a year
Thanks again.
Anette
By: placeofgrace on March 11, 2009
at 6:03 am
Hello my friend. Yes indeed I check here often. I knew that you would be busy, what with school and homeschooling. I have to agree with the last commenter..in everything she said! So give yourself some grace woman! Wait isn’t this the place of grace?!
Really I have missed you, but will continue to pray the Lord’s sustaining grace on your life. Funny how, I took accounting in college, got my degree to teach accounting and now I am homeschooling…not teaching accounting, yet anyway! We have so much in common!
Take it slow my friend…one day at a time!
By: Lisa Engel on March 11, 2009
at 2:43 am
Hi Lisa
Ai, the place of grace thing … I’ve always had more grace for others than for myself. That’s why I did the Social Work thing for so long, while totally abusing myself. At the moment I have no idea how I’m going to build a career in Accounting while worrying about the children’s education. But I try not to think about that too much, I try to take one day at a time. Sometimes my trying works, sometimes it don’t!!
Thank’s for the prayers, I need it.
Anette
By: placeofgrace on March 11, 2009
at 6:07 am