because you will understand They have cancelled PS for tomorrow (my foster kids are excited about it)... but I am reading WHINING from all most every one of my facebook friend's who doesn't homeschool!! They are complaining because they will be "stuck" home with their kids yet ANOTHER day...... I mean - when did KIDS become such a burden!? I admit - I was one of those people until I was hit it the head with a "DUH!" moment and realized it was MY CHOICE to have children...why have them if you never want to be around them!!
Many of my friends "back home" were doing the same thing at the beginning of the week! I just don't get that attitude at all!
I can understand wanting a moment to yourself, if nothing else just to regroup your thoughts. I can't understand when parents throw away all the years of discovery that their children share with them. I can look through my DS's eyes and see a new way of looking at something, making it like a new experience for me. I hate that I wasted this gift by sending him to PS for K-4. Not only that, but I have had to repair the damage to his self esteem that the PS did. Makes me want to shout, "WAKE UP!!"
I see the same thing on my FB page too. Also, the beginning of the school year made me so frustrated with all the people posting how happy they were that school was starting back. Ugh. I never felt like that even before I homeschooled.
I see this all the time too and it actually makes me really mad. I don't get it at all. My son is enrolled in ps kindergarten this year and I hate it when he goes. I love weekends and snow days. We are going to hs in the fall and I can't wait.
Dana, I don't get it either. FortheSon, they should have enough time to regroup on the days the children are in school. I love beginning with my children and I miss them when they are gone. I feel lost. Yes, I know some day I will be lost but until then I am milking it up as much as I can. Yes, I know I am different and been told that so many times. But, hey I rather be different then normal I guess.
I've never been normal either. I so disliked the commercials where the mom helps her kids get ready for school, then on the bus, waves goodbye....................then pumps her fist and says, "Yessss!" and smiles! I adore my chilren! I don't like everything they do or all the choices they make, but I have felt very blessed to be able to homeschool them!
:lol: My dd10 is in public school right now. (will be coming home within a month!!! ) and I was posting on my fb status that I HOPED for snow days to have BOTH my kids home with me! Can't wait!!! Only a few more weeks!
I was at the grocery store tonight with all my kids and the cashier looked at me and said "I bet you love it that they go to school all day so you don't have to deal with them." I just gave her a blank stare and my 9yo ds said "we don't go to school! We are homeschooled!!" She didn't say another word but I could tell she thought I was crazy. I too don't understand the need to have so much time away from your children, and to feel like they are such a burden...um...why did you have them in the first place?
I take "me time"...... it's not always something fun - but I have been getting my nails done (which DH loves because I'll scratch his back - LOL) and I do that by myself. It's funny though - when I run errands by myself, I am always in a rush to get back home as fast as I can. I took "me time" the other day when it was a snow day for the 2 oldest ones.... I sat inside and worked while I let them all have "dad time" of playing instead of working (he pulled them around the property on a snow tube using the ATV).... I am thankful I am ABLE to give them this lifestyle and I'm thankful I am here to enjoy it.
Oh I used to be like that when DS was in PS. I loved having my free time. Not anymore though. I mean I still like my time but having DS home is great.
I love my kids and I don't know what I would do without them. I understand me time, but I much prefer me time to be spent as us time me and DH going on a date
the moment I realized I needed to hs was the day I dropped my daughter off at K and said, this feels so wrong! 6 weeks after school started I still didn't feel right about having her gone and a fellow mom said "you should have gotten over this by now" I couldn't stand it and ds missed his sissy. As soon as we pulled her out and started hsing,things felt right again. most peoples first comment to me is " That would make me crazy, being with my kids all day" I feel sorry for their kids.
Just a big ditto to this. I love being with my kids. I work 2 days a week at a Mothers Day Out with a homeschool group doing group activities that are hard to do at home, and even though my kids are in the same building with me all day, I am "that mom" who always needs to peek in on her kids. I spend most of my free time in one of my kids classrooms helping or eating lunch with them. I can't stand it, but my kids get to go for free and really enjoy getting to do the activities(cooking, science lab, things like that). I cry thinking about having to put them into PS and thats not even an option for us!
I can't stand it when any of my five are away from home. My oldest left home for college last fall and I still haven't adjusted. I miss him terribly!
That was one of the reasons I stopped talking to some of my friends about homeschooling. When I first mentioned it a few years ago at a playgroup, several of them were like, dont you want time to yourself?.. I was just speechless at that.. if that is why you send your kids to school, do you even like being a parent? If you truly feel that PS is the best place for them it's one thing, but if you look down on homeschooling because you want "you" time.. that's just sad. I do actually get plenty of "me" time. I dance competitively, so I go out to dance a couple nights a week, and have an hour long exercise class at least 3 times a week. I also travel on weekends fairly regularly to compete and on the weekends that the kids cant come because it costs too much to fly them with us, I miss them terribly. However, Homeschooling has, aside form being IMO the best choice for their education, also allows me to not feel guilty for having the occasional weekend or evening away without guilt, because I get to spend every day with them, and am taking an active role in how they develop. If i sent them away everyday, taking me time, when they weren't in school would feel like I was stealing quality time form them. Kelly Homeschooling my 6 year old twins, one boy and one girl :love:
When the children go off to school, they become so much like "the collective" that they no longer mesh with mom and dad and can be difficult to be with. It is like having a stranger in your home. They spend soo much time there that they spend more waking hours there than at home really. When you are with your children every day, day after day, things just get so much better. Everyone gets along better and we all want to be together more.
When my kids went to PS they were a pain in the neck. I seen a big change in their attitude within a couple of months of HS. They see WAY less of their friends now, and that includes neighbor's kids. They seemed so whiny, disrespectful and downright rude all the time. My oldest especially would get off the bus wound up and so wild every night, almost like a different kid.
