The Homeschool Stops
It's been eight days since Teacher Mommy fell sick and it's been a nightmare. How do you really manage things when you are stuck on the bed? Can't really do anything much, ei?
We were having a roll. Supposedly it would have been our third week of zero gadget/screentime rule, but I had to bend the rule and allowed the kids screen time again or else it would be WWIII.
So what happens to our little homeschool when Teacher Mommy gets sick? It goes into downward spiral. :(
I have never been this sick since I can remember, three years ago. That time I had a flu that took me three weeks to recover. Thankfully now, I feel back to 85% of my old self after a week, but I still not try to spread myself thin.
Habits Die hard
Thankfully, we have cemented some habits that are hard to break already. For example, my youngest never sleeps without our nightly book reading. When mommy cannot read, he gets a book that suits his level and he reads by himself.
The nightly chess matches with their dad also did not falter.
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For the Little Miss, she still sticks with her creative side where she always holds a pencil and her sketch pad. She also recently memorized a beginner version of the song, "A Thousand Years" on the piano.
Play Time!
Yesterday, I was feeling much better that I was able to supervise them as they played outside. I let them play with the water spray for a while. It's always fun playing with water, right?
Little Man made it rain, he made rainbows, and finally asked for soap and completed a shower. LOL.
Chores Galore
I have mentioned this several times, we gear our homeschool outputs towards practical life applications. It is important that they know important life skills, and for us that starts with learning how to do chores inside the house.
My eldest, thankfully, can already help me with a lot of stuff in the house. He can cook a few dishes already, and this time when I got sick, he was put to test. :)
Our academics had to take a back seat especially for the two younger ones who really need me to facilitate the lessons for them.
Today, we were able to spend a few minutes for Math. Hopefully tomorrow I will feel much better and we will be able to get to a bit of normalcy.
How about you, how do you manage the homeschool when you get sick?
It is very important everything you have pointed out in your post especially when you say that the "mom teacher got sick" I think it is extremely important to understand that education at home focuses on just to move forward in the midst of difficulties and to show that our work as trainers never ends that role of being a parent who educates is assumed for life and is done in the small details of everyday life, look at how your children follow their habits because they are already consolidated, and that is what it is about making their learning is significant not only for a moment but for life. Congratulations for your reflections, I hope you get better soon.
Greetings friend, I am glad you are recovering. Here at home my wife and I share the education of our son, so when one gets sick luckily the other is aware of the activities and can continue them while the other is resting, although recently we both got sick at the same time so literally the child did what he wanted, it really is a time where this aspect is neglected but recovering health becomes paramount. May you continue to recover.
Tough when momma gets sick! Thankfully we’ve had some decent luck with not getting sick like that since our son was born. I don’t know what we would do honestly, no one helps us so it’s just my wife and I. Hopefully you don’t get that again! What was it from? A similar situation as to what happened last time? I think I remember you saying your husband was forced to get the experimental injection for work which sucks.
Looks like the kids are doing good at their routine! Our son can’t fall asleep without me reading him at least two books every night and singing him to sleep. It’s a little tough sometimes when you’re really tired but it’s definitely something I enjoy. We’ve been lucky, we’ve had no TV since about February or so and it’s a great change in him. It wasn’t easy for sure but sticking to it has been a good battle so hopefully you can go back, once you’re feeling back to normal, to no screens!
I really hope not to get this again. I am really not sure how I got sick coz I very seldom go out.
We're keen to restart the no screen time again very soon. The kids already had the time of their lives this past week. Hehe
On the bright side I think you've demonstrated unschooling at its finest here ;D there are very few academics that actually have to be introduced stupidly young for it to be optimal, it's a thing that can be done pretty much whenever.
Given how we do anything, if I'm sick the kids just end up doing whatever. There is usually "learning" happening regardless of what they're doing. I had a period of time where my sister was commenting that I got sick "all the time", I think something had depleted caring for the kids when they were little, they're all bigger now and I'm back to my normal pretty much never getting sick (as far as I'm aware, but I'm really stubborn and will push through exhaustion if it's safe to do so (I know when I'm not safe to drive and when I'm not safe to drive I also don't use sharp objects or move heavy things so chances are unless I have actual symptoms that can't be mistaken for anything else I wouldn't notice).
Hope you're feeling better now :)
I'm trying to get my wife a little bit into unschooling. Our son is very good, articulate and can do quite a bit for his age but she's pushing for him to read and write even though one of the schools we are going to send him to says that he won't be doing that for another year since it's not that important for kids. Not a battle I'm going to fight but I do agree personally that a lot of the academic stuff doesn't need to be hammered into them so early. Let them enjoy their youth! They can learn to read and write and stuff but don't put too much focus on that shit.
When you were talking about knowing when not to drive I thought you were referring to alcohol hahaha. You could be! I think it's exhaustion now though, yeah?
The thing with reading and writing (and some other things) seems to be that regardless of what you do or how you try to teach it, it quite simply will not happen til the brain is good and ready to accept it. My oldest sounds similar to your son, he was very articulate from a young age and could do quite a bit for his age, however reading was not one of them. His sister had learned to read from 5 and being a couple of years older he could see that he was missing out on stuff and he tried desperately, and we did push and try to help but no matter what we did, all English lessons either "formal" (sit down with workbooks and pencils) or informal ended in tears and tantrums. Even after I narrowed down to he was struggling with blends and we did extra work on them, nothing.
Then at 8 he was suddenly reading novels with zero transition (literally straight into the "young adult" sized novels and bigger, without going through the kids' books that we had been reading as bedtime stories), because the brain decided it was ready at that point.
Basically unless they're really stressing people out, the reading/writing lessons (probably) won't hurt but probably won't help as much as people expect/want them to ^_^;
LoL yes exhaustion, I don't drink as much as I used to when I was a teenager and I'm such a featherweight now that even taking too many sips without adequate space in between will make me feel tipsy XD
Yeah our son absolutely does things on his terms and it's a little tedious and frustrating at times but now that we've seen what happens when something clicks in that little noggin of his, it's a remarkable thing! I'm trying to get better at taking a breath when he's doing something that is wrong or intentionally not what I asked him because usually in a couple weeks he does it well and without issue. One of the small things that was a bit of a struggle and battle for him was folding socks lol. For ankle socks, we typically take the pair and fold them in on each other so it becomes a ball. He had quite a battle trying to figure that out! An hour was spent doing it one day with lots of tears and frustration. We folded clothes two weeks later and he was determined to do it and got it with some guidance and was so proud of himself he ran over and showed mum lol.
With letters he’s getting better at them but not as quickly as my wife wants. She’s a little stressed about things like that since he’s our only child and she wants him to succeed but I try to be patient and let him do things when he’s ready. We did letters tonight and he got 6 of them from random parts of the alphabet so that was good. He can perfectly go from A to Z in a row but that’s because of the song hahaha
Do you remember being a child and KNOWING for SURE that you knew better than those outdated frumpy adults? XD
Aaaahhhhhhhh XD
Thank you! I am feeling much, much better now. I'm really grateful we got the kids to learn tasks at home that I don't have to worry too much about stuff getting done. There was also a stage when I was almost always sick I think that was when I was breastfeeding the youngest. Now this pesky bug I got hopefully doesn't come back to bother us again. 😑
Yay glad you're feeling better :D and hopefully you have relative immunity and all related bugs stay away XD
That makes sense, breastfeeding would take it out of you!