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September 9, 2009
On the days you drag...
For two nights my sleep has gone something like this: in bed at midnight, awake at 1am for baby, woken 20 mins later for (child #3), sleep 1 hour later and woken by baby, sleep 90 mins to be woken by child #2, sleep 45 mins and woken by baby again....rinse and repeat until around 7am when the three LOUD olders announce thier presence to the block (which inevitably wakes the baby) and I wave the white flag and drag myself out of bed.
I am a night owl by nature. Mornings are never kind to me, but more so when the nights are just as rough. How do you, as seasoned homeschoolers, push thru the hard days? The days you drag through. The days that take every bit of energy, focus, and concentration just to remember your children's names and to remain patient at the myriad of balls they throw at you to juggle? Or when you are pregnant and your body (and mind) are using every available resource to grow the babe within, while the babes already-born get the leftovers?
It is noon now. I've just got everyone fed and the baby smelling of daisies again. We have played Mother May I, done a few household chores, and had a brief break-out dance session to the "Locomotion" (presumably when the diet Coke hit my system), oh and the fish have been fed. Otherwise, we are all, every one of us still in PJ's, no "proper" schooling has taken place in any form, and I am trying to motivate myself just to fix lunch!
On these days how do you push thru? How do you motivate? Do you skip the day and vow to make up the work later on? (Hey! Gotta love the flexibility that comes with hometeaching!) Do computer learning games? Send 'em outside and claim it a PT day? And how do you combat the "I could've done better...I wanted/imagined it better" guilt that follows? |
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September 9, 2009 - homeschooling