What is it about the grey days of January that makes me begin to question everything I’m doing in our home school? Perhaps it’s the grumpy attitudes from my kids each morning when I call them for school. Perhaps it’s my own weariness as I look at what I haven’t accomplished yet this year. Perhaps it’s the articles I’ve been reading about Freedomship Education and Classical methods, from this month’s issue of The Old Schoolhouse. Or maybe it was the entry from Howard Phillip’s blog that my husband read to me last night.
Once I began using Sonlight, I planned to use it right through the end of my kids’ schooling. I love the resources they use, and I don’t have as much planning to do. However, I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll be able to continue with all the kids. And, although I love all the resources, sometimes I feel like I have too many to juggle. A reader, a read-aloud, a history spine, a book of poetry, a book about unreached peoples…whew…
At what point do I let Nathanael go on his own so I have more time to work with the little ones? And how much do I let go and still have a relationship with him, as this is one of the reasons we homeschool? His read-alouds are really too old for the little ones, but I don’t have time to fit in more read alouds. The little ones need story time with mom as much as he does. Hmmm…
