Dc1 is coming up to 7, dc2 is 4 and autistic and I have a toddler. I'm feeling quite down about it all. I'm a teacher so very aware of school standards which doesn't help.
Dc1 is inarticulate and evades work, he would play a console all day or watch to. Loves the sport and social side but hard to engage in activities. He is good at maths but evasive with reading and writing and probably quite behind, he was further so when I took him out in yr 1 but it the work attitude that worries me.he cries because he doesn't want to try the simplest task, and soon it will hold him back more and more joining in age appropriate trips etc. If he was developing work skill etc I'd worry less about levels but he is very immature. He's a good child in general, but so work shy. He could read a book if prompted but unless you monitor he will skim the pictures. He has a character where he could literally do nothing at all
Dc2 is just in her own bubble. Holds a pen like a baby and retains nothing. Socially she has no friends and doesn't notice. She could chat to herself all day, literally hours on end. It doesn't seem healthy. Taking her out is getting harder. I worry that HE from the word go will widen her peer gap and she'll never be able to start school. If our circumstances change this is a nightmare. On the flip side putting her in school to flounder seems cruel. I think she'd be massively distressed and our catchment school and LA are both awful, she'd be unsupported. It's a rock and a hard place.
The toddler is lovely and advanced, but obviously requires a lot of time and care which impacts on the others or limits us from some trips.
I think I'm also used to a lot of social contact and work which is part of it all.
Other families seem to fall into two camps, bigger family but some flexible family support or one or two able children. They easily access any trip etc they wish to. They say they are unschoolers etc but then on the flip side their children are supper article/ reading above their age etc! I've seen the things they do and unschooling means supporting fantastic self led work, as opposed to managing sod all!
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FlippedUpRightSide · 24/03/2017 10:56
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