red sea school
Oct. 7, 2006
Too Many Good Things

Posted in Just sayin

This must be the Age of the Homeschooler. I can't turn around without finding another great class to sign up for.

Right now Violet has choir practice once a week, piano once a week, church/Sunday school, HS playgroup once a week, and family faith formation once a month.

We also have our nanny, "Mary," 3 afternoons a week, which usually means at least 2 field trips a week: Children's Museum, apple picking, science museum, zoo, etc.

Still on hold we have Girls Scouts, art class, martial arts, gymnastics, and ice skating.

DH and I decided last night that art class is out. It would mean 3 late afternoon/evening things every week, and some weeks 4, Monday thru Thursday. We may try it during the summer, when choir is done.

This summer, too, we need to let Victoria have some fun. She's been jealous of big sister having choir camp and Wonka week and whatnot. Which means more money and more driving and more complicated scheduling!

I had learned that being a stay-at-home mom did not have much to do with staying home, but now I'm seeing that it's just as hard to keep the "home" in homeschool.


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Oct. 7, 2006 - wow!

Posted by dawilli


And I thought I was busy! We have been enjoying a lot of field trips this fall, but we definitely try to keep the regular weekly commitments to a bare minimum, right now we just do orchestra on Mondays with the 3 oldest...
Well, have fun trying to keep up with it all,
ali


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Oct. 7, 2006 - I am dealing with the same thing

Posted by Anonymous


Yesterday I was so worried about not having time for "academics" because she is spending too much time with other classes like voice, piano, Shakespeare, gymnastics and Japanese. So I wrote out a schedule to fit in her homeschooling.

The thing that classes really disrupt is spontaneous field trips. Right now she has two classes on Monday, all day homeschool park day on Wed, two classes on Thursday, and standing playdates on Friday.


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Oct. 11, 2006 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Mamita


The scheduling is very difficult for parents with more than one but at least the children have each other to keep each other company.

I wish we had been able to have another.


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