Homeschool Linebacker
We started back homeschooling full time this week. It’s been pretty much like every first week back after any extended break. Painful. My children and I will never fit the mold of the homeschooling families on the cover of Homeschooling Today. My children are smart. They are funny. They are fun to be around. (Most of the time.) But they very much like to plan their own days and school seldom reaches even the top ten of things they would like to do. They are convinced that nobody except their quirky mother cares if they put capital letters at the beginning of sentences or end punctuation at the end of them. They are certain that spelling conventions are really just suggestions and that writing an essay is a form of torture devised by me.
It is not uncommon for my husband to come home and find me in a “state” at the end of the first week back to school. (And any break in excess of a single schoolweek results in a “first week back to school”) and this week was no different. This week he walked in on me grading an Introduction to Catholicism test. I was in quite the state and saying something like “And you people will learn how to spell ‘Eucharist’!! You are Catholic and you need to know how to spell it. I do not care if you think I am being picky…..”
He thinks I need a “Homeschool Linebacker”……There are days when it’s tempting…..
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