1/25/2024 0 Comments Typesy homeschool![]() I hired a Mother’s Helper tutor a few years ago to help me get through phonics with my large brood and to do all the grading of the millions of workbooks we cycle through. ( See #4 for how we make up for scheduling issues.) So we’ve learned that when the kids reach a certain level of math, he becomes their teacher. Fortunately, my husband was a math minor in college and fractions get him all jazzed up. They could sense my inner turmoil over math lessons. ![]() I’ve learned that my kids pick up my attitudes about a subject, no matter how hard I try to hide it. Sarah MacKenzie of The Read-Aloud Revival talks about her experience with a math tutor here. Look into library tutoring programs, community service programs, or just ask on Facebook. There are lots of poor college kids out there who are stronger in the finer points of algebra than you might be. This isn’t as pricey or as unattainable as you may think. Lucky for us, there are lots of options and lots of ways to help share the burden (and the blessing) of schooling at home! Or perhaps we realize that because of our own weakness in a subject (for me, it’s math), our children are beginning to demonstrate that same weakness.īut we want better for them! We want them to succeed where we have not! ![]() Moms and dads get overwhelmed and struggle to juggle all the important responsibilities of homeschooling and keeping a family running. But those choices come with consequences: sometimes it means we can’t do it all. We make the schooling choices we make as parents because we want what’s best for our kids. It’s also totally survivable.īut you might need a buddy to help you get over it. ![]() They’d be better off in *insert anything else but home.*”Īnd what I reassured my friend, in between discussions of international boarding schools, is that The Wall is totally normal. It’s the one that says, “I can’t do this anymore. There’s a brick wall somewhere on this road of homeschooling that most families run into at some point. She mumbled sadly, “Something has got to give. My friend was exhausted and sad to her core after a particularly epic meltdown over language arts. Learn how your comment data is processed. We reserve the right to delete any review or portion of a review that we believe does not meet our guidelines.Abuse of the system through repeated negative submissions that appear to be from the same individual do not meet our guidelines.Refrain from ad hominem attacks, rudeness, and/or personal judgments of other commentors or individuals employed by the curriculum publisher/school.If you are not at least 16 years old, your review does not meet our guidelines. You must be at least 16 years old to submit a review.Reviews with fake email addresses will be deleted. You may post reviews for companies for which you are a member of an affiliate program, but no affiliate links should be included in your review. You should not review products for companies you are employed by.We ask that you only post original reviews not posted elsewhere online. Your entire review must be submitted to our site we do not link to full or continued ("see more here" links) reviews on other websites.What this means in simple terms: we want real, unbiased reviews of products and resources for which you were not provided a review copy. Please only review resources that you have used in your own homeschool.Review guidelines include but are not limited to the following
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