This isn't written like normal cause I posted this in a homeschooling thread and then just copied it here...
Last week didn't go well due to my son trying to transition to no naps. It was awful. Then on Wednesday my husband lost his job. Our weekends had been Thurs-Sat so we didn't do school the rest of the week. Yesterday I asked hubby to keep our son occupied with school activities while I helped our daughter. He didn't do this at all. Today, same thing. He tried working with DD and just got frustrated. He started threatening to send her to school. Then when I was trying to work with her she started refusing to do anything and would walk away. Once again he starts threatening PS. I tried talking to him about how he shouldn't mention that and he just said "well, her friends go to school so she should too" UGH! That made me SO mad!!! I have felt called to homeschool her since she was like 3 and it's been going great. I feel like he's setting me up for failure. He wasn't homeschooled and doesn't know any homeschoolers so he just doesn't get it...I think when he realized how hurt and upset I was he felt bad. He's gone now and is hoping that I can do work with her while he's gone. Unfortunately I now have to undo all the last weeks damage and it's not gonna be a simple task. She wants to go to school so I think his threatening just made her think that if she keeps this up then she'll get to go to school.
Anyways, I feel like I'm rambling, but I just needed to get this out.
Monday, October 11, 2010
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I know how bad it is to threaten with school. I do it way more than I should. I hope you're able to undo the damage and get back to schooling. It's hard when you don't have 100% support.
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