Well the end of an era has begun. My almost 3 year old has given up napping. No longer am I guaranteed an hour or two quiet time to myself. You may have noticed I haven’t stopped by your blog. Sorry. I will. Miss you!
Now we are establishing “Quiet Time”.
Good times.
ha!
Actually Ethan is starting to appreciate the time in his room to play quietly. We have a few accidents and tantrums but it is coming along.
How come no one mentioned how painstakingly torturous printing valentines would be?
We found the perfect cat valentines online, printed them off on card stock and cut them out. Becca is really really struggling to print out the names of her classmates and “From Rebecca”. It is insanely frustrating to try to help her through it. We have set out to do a few a night but still struggling. This morning we were much more successful but I can not bank on having time in the mornings.
My hats off too all homeschoolers.
I seriously could not do it.
I am the worst teacher … ever.
I can build lego, pretend to go on adventures, read, play with cars, dinosaurs, build sand castles, go on hikes, talk nature, teach manners, play at the park, bake, cook, work with playdough and all those endless carefree things to do with children.
However when it comes to teaching them, I seriously fall short. I lose my patience and my temper. I never seem to be able to explain things in a way that they respond to. I try. I can help other people’s children with stuff and they listen. My own. Not so much.
How do you keep your cool when helping your kids with learning? Do you leave it to the experts? Please reassure me I am not the only one that struggles with this!
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Sorry you’ve lost your nap time – that’s always so sad.
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Dude, you are hanging out with the wrong homeschoolers. Valentine’s are the worst! A few for special friends, sure that’s o.k. But by the time 20-30 names have been applied to a group . . . tears. I was determined this year to avoid that by making labels for him, only to hear myself say, “Can’t you put the labels on straight?” Gah! Like any kid is going to say, “I hate this Valentine, my label is crooked.”
Yeah, you’re normal.
So sorry about your nap. That’s horrid.
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i love how homework for them really means homework for us. and yes, i tortured nate with his V’s yesterday, too. we only had a few moments of major frustration. “seriously, that child’s name is too long for you to write that big in that space and still have room for it all.” so the longest names are half big, half tiny.
instead of the christmas letter i can’t seem to get done, i might be sending becca a valentine! actually, i’m shooting for an easter update letter this year.
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Well, I hate to admit it, but you sound exactly like me and your grandmother. So…lesson learned…you come by it totally honestly. Ask my kids. I was able to do all the things you listed that you can do. But TEACH??!! You better get it now, ’cause you ain’t gonna get a second chance!!
I am planning what we did last year. I printed up a bunch of lables with Aidan’s picture on it. We put the child’s name on the valentine and he put the photo sticker on. It saved a LOT of time.
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The good news is that the printing gets easier. My big kids did their Valentines completely by themselves. I’m not sure anyone can read K’s classmates’ names but him, but he’ll be the one handing them out anyway.
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I couldn’t homeschool either. The patience I don’t have and a little break from the kids is nice too.
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Yep, no patience here for home schooling!
Theo hasn’t had an afternoon nap since just after turning 2 years old. Every now and then he’ll have a catch-up, but man, when he dropped them, I felt quite exhausted for a week or two or three!
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Ok Chelle I feel like I could have wrote this post! I feel the same way about I couldn’t homeschool and I get so frustrated, and lost my patience and temper when trying to work on something with Kayla. I feel so guilty because I know I should be doing more with Kayla and especially now they’ve been out of school because of all this snow…I try to do things with her when Lucas is napping. I don’t know, I just don’t know how to teach her. I try to work on handwriting with her and when she just doesn’t want to do it, I can’t force her. It becomes a struggle…anyway…didn’t mean to take over your comments, it’s just – I know what you mean!
Count yourself lucky! I’m a working mom and my 4 yo goes to kindergarten every other day, and a daycare centre the other days. She has to address 45 Valentines! And my 2 yo also goes to daycare, so I have another 20 to do for her! I’m thinking of just getting the kids to write their own name out, then scan it in and print onto labels & have them stick them onto each Valentine – because it’s ridiculous!
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First, one of the saddest days of my life was when my youngest prematurely (in my opinion) stopped napping.
I put together Valentine’s boxes and Valentines with my sons yesterday….I need a drink.
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My own kids always responded much better to other people than they did to me when it came to being taught. I tried, too, but became frustrated too easily and gave up. It sounds like you are doing pretty well with it, though! I think things would be different if I had young children now. I’ve learned a lot about patience in the years since then
I’m with you. I have no patience for it, at all.
No way jose! Of course you are not the only one struggling with the teaching part of raising kids.
All parents are stronger than some areas than others. Teaching kids is tough, it takes sooooooo much patience! But sounds like you and your kiddies are happy together and getting alone and that’s what really matters! Keep on trying, great luck to ya. 
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no no no! You are definitely not alone, teaching kids is tough and takes lots of patience. As parents, we can’t be good at everything! But as long as we do the best we can, it’s normal that we will be better in some areas than others. No worries!
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