Why do we decide to educate at home

Sharing more about how long we intend to educate at home and why we are doing it with just a little more than a remaining month of the school year.

Hello friends!

I hope you have an incredible week and I am so pumped that so many of you have registered in our spring forward’s well -being challenge. Be sure to register here, it is totally free and it will be a lot of fun. If you are looking for a motivation explosion while we head to spring, this is the perfect way to do it!

For today’s publication, I wanted to share a little more about our home education trip and what is happening. I have alluded to the fact that we have had a difficult time in recent months and it has been difficult to navigate how and what to share. I’ve always been open with you when it comes to my life, but The blog purpose has always been to share my experience; Not of my children. It is a difficult line to walk, especially when they are a large part of my life and I feel that many of you are part of our family. At the same time, I never want them to feel that their privacy has been invaded by what I share here, so I have always tried to adopt a delicate approach to my content, especially as they age.

The Nutshell version is this: we end up transferring LIV to another private school in January. We were all fighting with the amazing amount of tasks, evidence and tasks. It was especially difficult with its competition dance schedule. We changed studies and cut their hours in half, and it was still awake up to at least midnight every night (for the last 2 years and more) trying to finish everything for school. I am a great believer in hard work and I think that academic rigor has its place, but it was too much for everyone. So, she changed and has been thriving.

When he changed schools, it was the first time that P had his big sister at school, which was a challenge for her. The pilot also retired, which was a great transition, and began to have more frequent stomach pains. (His stomach has bothered her for years, which has always worried me, since she had severe reflux when she was a baby and was in Prilosec and Zantac, which has been remembered for terrifying reasons). He saw several doctors, had an ultrasound, his stomach was considered “healthy”, and his only suggestion was to put it in a PPI again. I was also doing CBT weekly, and sometimes twice a week. His stomach pain and anxiety got so bad that he lost many days of school, and we were here trying to keep up with the crazy amount of task, class work and tests.

The pilot was at home for retirement and was teaching him the content, making sure to complete the huge classroom work packages and take it to school to obtain exams. I had returned to the training of the commercial airline and could not understand the upbringing in solo, work and try to maintain the rhythm of all the school work I was losing, so I asked him to choose to return to school or we could take it out, and she said: “Please, home education me.”

I never intended to be a teacher, but I will do anything for our babies and if that is what P needs at this time, I will.

(We love Nicole the mathematics! An incredible rec de Brittany).

It is also worth mentioning here that I decided to do a Food Sentivity test (and some other functional laboratories) and I reached the root cause of some intestinal problems, and its gluten sensitivity was severe. It is not surprising that the stomach hurt:/ Since the starting the protocols and withdrew the gluten, his stomach pain has been reduced considerably.

Our plan now:

– She is on the waiting list for the new Liv School, but in a realistically you will not be able to enter until the fifth grade

– We will be at home until then and if she decides to return, that’s great, and if she doesn’t want to, it’s fine too.

The funny thing is that it used to be really cautious with home education. Children before the children thought: “How hell can a father expect to teach their children more effectively than a teacher?”

During the time of girls at school, we have had some extraordinary teachers who are all that teachers should be. They love children, they love what they are teaching, they are above and beyond. But at the same time, some teachers are not good. They say strange things in class, embarrass children in front of their classmates, and this happens in an environment of private school all the time, when you pay your child to be taught by instructors who do not like children. A large majority of the time, we spent the block of three to four hours every night teaching anyway, because they were not taught the content during their classes.

Growing up, I also thought that children educated at home were probably uncomfortable because they don’t have so much social interaction. The reality is that all children educated in the home I have met are friendly, articulated, friendly and incredibly intelligent.

Although I have seen friends at home and a kind of dream about how fun it would be, I did not consider it a possibility because I work from home, juggling with customer calls, content creation, podcast interviews, zooms, IHP work, etc. I did not feel that I could add other things to my dish, but I didn’t even think twice about that when we reached this point. I have greatly considered my schedule so that most of my content creation is done during the weekend, and beauty on home education is that only take about two hours every day at this age.

This publication is already very long, so I will share another publication with the curriculum we are using and how we structure our days.

Thanks for your kindness and being so incredible in recent months. It has been a difficult year in many ways (this is only one of them) and being here with you is all an important brilliant point. We finish our first full week of education at home and I feel quite excited and hopeful about it. I am also grateful that we can spend an extra time together and we are investigating all the great home education activities offered by Tucson!

Xoxo

Gina