Mom Is Teaching

Ok, so back to where I was headed yesterday when I was led so seriously astray,  And honestly, I’ve had to think long and hard to remember what it was.  But, indeed, I do know now.

When we get the books that Walker cannot read well, he and I end up in a teary-eyed scuffle over me trying to teach him to sound out the words.  He will almost always burst into tears when I won’t tell him the word and sometimes he will even cry if I let Jace go ahead and pick out a book that he knows he can’t read completely.

And, my dad and I had those same verbal, teary-eyed scuffles when I would ask for his help.  Obviously I don’t remember to read but I do remember having tons of math issues.  I took every math offered at our school in 4 years.  That meant that for 3 years, I saw the same math teacher twice a day for a class.

But, if I made it home and couldn’t recall the way to do something, my dad and I would go in circles battling.  The first year that computer science was taught in our school system my dad taught it at his school.  I took it at my school.  It was the first time I ever had a C and the exchange between my dad and I over the difficulty of the class was unbelievable.

So, when Luke asked me why I thought I wasn’t cut out for homeschooling, I sited those tear-striken battles that we have regularly over simply learning to read.  So, I said all that to ask you, the readers these questions….

If you homeschool, do you routinely have these battles that end in heaps of tears on both the parent and the student?

If you don’t homeschool but you attempt your child in a subject that they are having difficulties with, does it end in 2 people in a heap on the floor crying?

Please tell me I am not the only one.  Luke asked me again why I thought I couldn’t homeschool and obviously a lot of reasons but I do have a plan.  I have lofty goals but if I can make them come true, I will most definitely be taking my kids on the road and homeschooling.

What exactly does that mean?  It means that if I can make enough money blogging, my husband can quit his job because he is making money consulting, then we will pull our kids out of school and travel.  The biggest part of my education that was poor was the things that I could have learned by seeing and touching instead of just reading about them in a book.

So, for all of you wondering if I have considered it?  Absolutely I have considered it.  Will it happen, hopefully within the next 5 years?  Is it something that I think is too lofty of  goal?  Yea maybe. 

And, then, I really worry about those combative study times like the ones we have now and the ones I grew up having with my father.

Does this happen to you?

See, neither of these two people are crying…humf