Single Parenting and Homeschooling: You Can Do It
I have been homeschooling my children for 8 years now. I am married, but recently found myself separated. So now not only do I have the joy of raising my children, and homeschooling my children, Now I get to do it alone. At least for now. With this comes the added burden of how to support them, how to keep up with it all on my own. Of course there are new needs for the children now. They are insecure, unsettled, scared, and have many questions. At one point I thought there was no way I could do it all and still home school. As we move through life I find that everything that worked before does not work now. So as we go we change what needs change till I find something that works. For instance before we always started school fairly early in the morning, by 9 AM. We had a set order the subjects were done, time, the whole thing was very organized. We all need some flexibility now. I am working from home. This changes things a lot. So we have to do school, chores, errands, free time, showers/baths, yard work,animals care,and anything else that comes our way around my work schedule. Luckily I found a company that I can set my ours each week, go around my needs for the most part. But if I cant work it during the day, guess what I do that night? Yes you guessed it, I work! So now schooling has changed. Not only do we not have a set schedule, our whole approach changed! The kids must do 1 lesson in Math everyday, they must do Spelling every day, we use Spelling Power and love it! Then we switch gears and move over to the Robinson curriculum, so for the most part the rest of their day is spent reading. I also count it for school if they play educational games, on the Computer or board games, if they write, journal, cook, bake,walk or exercise, park trips, field trips, watch an educational movie, listen to an educational tape or CD. These things all count, and my children d most of those things daily because they like to. The older children help care for younger children while I work. They take turns making lunch. Their chores, well we do them at different times, it depends on my work schedule. …