Fridays are Fresh Days!!!! I can use this weekend to turn things around. I'm hoping it climbs to double digits, and then we can start to enjoy all this snow we have. I would love to take the boys sledding, build snow forts and snow people. It wasn't fair we got 18 inches of snow followed by single digit temperatures.
I have to reconnect with my family. Working these extra hours, I feel like I'm missing out. I know they've been supervised by DH, but I have no idea what the boys have been learning. This has been an adjustment for me. When I was home with them more, I was privileged to share in their daily questioning more. Now Dad is facilitating their way to answers.
As Unschoolers, we don't use lessons plans and assignments. At any given moment inspiration could strike and take them in any direction. If I'm not around, I won't be able to see where they are going. I know DH has been here for them, but now I feel the need to play catch up this weekend.
I think when you decide to unschool, you have to make a commitment to take a huge interest in what interests your children. You have to share the experiences with them, otherwise you won't know what they have learned.
If we did "school" at home, I suppose it would be easy for me, being absent, to use the little time I am around to peek at workbook pages and completed assignments to see progress, but that reality depresses me. I'd rather go directly to my children than rely on any paperwork's interpretation. Notebook paper has no soul.
For now, I should take comfort in the fact DH is home, and this is a blessing. As the boys transition into young men having more access to their father is perfect timing. I need to relinquish my role because they don't need to be "mothered" so much anymore.
I just can't help but feel this last minute panic, "Wait! Don't grow up so fast!! I have more to tell you!!!"
4 comments:
Hope it warms up so you can go play in the snow with your family. Enjoy your weekend off.
Even if you did 'school' with workbooks and notebooks, you'd still be able to talk with the boys about what they learned because they still have the advantage of learning from different outlets. :o) My husband prefers to talk with Alex about her day than see paperwork, although as she finishes lapbooks she's quick to show him and I think he likes that part of it to. :o)
I hope you get to have that time to reconnect this weekend. :o) maybe the weather will cooperate with ya! :o)
Make it a great weekend, Dawn!
I understand that last minute panic thing. I'm dealing with that as well. Hope you have a great weekend.
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