Today we set up our table and chairs in my bedroom to use for school. I don't like doing school at our kitchen table because I like to keep the downstairs neat and orderly. My bedroom is quite large, so we set up a good size folding table and three chairs in my room and laid out our books that we use on a regular basis along with our pencils and pens. This is also the room that holds our two bookcases, magazine files, and my seven drawer storage container for those miscellaneous items.

Katie has been wanting to do "classes" with us for a while, so I decided to allow her to skip the nap and remain with us during school. Unfortunately, this didn't work at all. Katie was just being a normal almost 3 year old. She was cutting, coloring, looking at books, drawing Charlotte from Charlotte's Web, and lacing her shapes. She was a bit distracting, no doubt about that. Nathan just couldn't handle the distraction. He kept goofing off and they both received spankings for not obeying. I was frustrated to the max. I finally dragged her into her room kicking and screaming. She fell asleep right away. Nathan was then able to calm down enough to do school with me. Live and learn, I suppose. I named my blog Living and Learning to represent that they can be done simultaneous, but sometimes we learn hard lessons.

From now on, I will school Katie first while Nathan works on chores or his own assignments IN ANOTHER ROOM! Then I will put her down for her nap while Nathan and I school together. Hopefully by the time she is old enough to school full time, they will both exhibit enough self control to school in the same room. Ugh.