Do you ever wonder if any other mom ever struggles with an issue in homeschooling?  I do!

Yesterday, Roboboy had a meltdown.  Yep, it took just three weeks into the new school year.  Frankly, it's been building up since day 1!  Sometimes I'm at the end of my rope when it comes to knowing what is best for this boy of mine.  Are my expectations too high?  Am I letting him off too easy if I don't encourage him to do more and to move faster?

Ever since the beginning of this school year, I have been struggling to get him motivated and moving to do his work.  I've even reduced my expectations this year in that, when we were using a workbook curriculum, we did every subject every day.  This year, I'm trying to have them do Math, Reading and Language Arts every day, and Social studies and science twice a week, with notebooking and art/music/etc. rounding off the week on the odd day.  I've given him a checklist, and when he finishes working on one subject, he ticks it off and goes on to whatever he wants to do next.

After yesterday's meltdown, I feel like in a sense I threw in the towel.  I basically told him, after we have our devotions and memory work together, you can basically do what you want so long as you work on school work until lunchtime.  I did encourage him to try to do some math and English every day.  Well, today, he spent most of the morning online researching state symbols for one of the states.  Then he watched a horrible histories video with his sister who is studying ancient Egypt, and rounded out the morning by working on memorizing his times tables and spelling.  All without a single sign of bad attitude or temper (which has been on display daily since the first day of school).

Maybe this child of mine needs more time and more flexibility than I have been giving him.  Lord, help me to instill a love of learning in this boy.  It is such a struggle!

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