I'm giving up guilt.  I'm tired of feeling guilty for things that I can't change.  When I was working, I felt guilty that I wasn't spending as much time on schoolwork with Hitman as I felt that I should.  I determined that "if only" I were home more, he and I could spend hours a day sitting around the kitchen table learning.  Well, now that I AM home - I have to say, I would rather scrub the toilet with a toothbrush than to sit around the kitchen table for hours doing anything!   I've been feeling guilty because we don't "DO" school very much.  We tend to watch movies, read books, have discussions and of course watch tv, run errads and clean house. 

BUT - he's learning.  This year the most important thing that he's learned is that learning is not a drag!  He gets excited about learning now.  He thinks it's fun. 

I've read all kinds of information about education styles and I've given up trying to find our place.  We're not quite Charlotte Mason because we don't read a lot of "great literature and living books" - we read "A History of US; the making of 13 colonies", we're certainly not school-at-home (it didn't work in school - I wasn't even going to try it), i guess we're eclectic - we do a little bit of everything and it works.

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