Anyone else failing at home schooling..

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and letting the kids do what they want apart from making them get fresh air in the garden that is!! I can't concentrate on anything at the moment apart from news and reading how to keep safe, setting up pharmacy and food deliveries for my parents etc. They've not moaned or argued yet and seem to be entertaining themselves. We've played badminton, sun bathed(teen) and made a cake so far, snuggled and watched a film but no a actual homework!! In the process of setting up laptops, ordering pens and stationary but the weathers nice so rather be out doors. Just want to keep them safe, relaxed and happy x

Doesn't sound like you're failing to me, sounds like you're doing a great job :)

Aww thank you 😊 my ds are 12 and 15. My 15 year old has SEN and suffers from anxiety so just want to keep things calm which also I'm trying to do myself. Whilst homework is important, I can't help think life's too short. Trying to make the most of the weigher I. E garden xx

**weather even. Will try and plan things whilst trying to adapt to this situation it's so hard isn't 😐

Sounds pretty good to me!

Don’t think of it as home schooling. Home schooling is something you actively choose and plan for your children. This is a national emergency.

Do what works for your family and don’t worry about it.

It's a good distraction for me and the dc so we are following the suggested school timetable. However dc are enjoying it. If they weren't it wouldn't be happening

My two are giving each other piggy backs in the living room currently. They did a tiny bit of set work this morning.
At least they're not arguing!

agree it's about what works in terms of keeping them happy and healthy in every way, but I am totally at sea for what my 9 yo ds is meant to be doing, he came home with a random bunch of paper about Vikings and that's it!

Mine is going pretty well atm - too well! Dd getting on with it herself, she even helped ds with his earlier, youngest dd completed it all today with no fuss today after only doing about half yesterday. I felt like mrs smug-pants when they’d finished by about 2pm and I rewarded them with chocolate..

It surely can’t last - I predict carnage by the end of the week!

Ours is a disaster as I’m battling the worst stomach bug of my life. They’re reading and learning their weekly spellings. That’s all we can manage here at the moment. I’m feeding them too.

They’re reading and learning their weekly spellings.

That’s definitely something good! Not a disaster at all.

Thankyou, it feels like a disaster when I see posts of their friends sat around the dining room table at 9am with their laptops out, colouring pens in position, fresh tulips on the table and fruit basket ready for ‘break time’.

For every person posting those, there’ll be at least a hundred tearing their hair out at the chaos, screaming, mess, outright defiance etc...

My DC are still going to school some days because I am a nurse. I am very grateful to the school for this, but there they are just occupying them the best way possible and feeding them, no reading/ spellings/ maths. So, I think that shows that is all that is required right now, that they are safe and fed with adult supervision, everything else is a bonus. You might have to provide quite a lot of input to keep them safe from killing each other if you have DC who don't get on, but that is all. Today my primary-school aged DC tidied up the front room so we could do 'school' in there, made unrealistic plans for the week, which took most of the morning, had a picnic lunch in the garden, argued over the ipad, did some work the school had suggested out of boredom. I now have to do the housework I couldn't get done, as DH's WFH 'office' is the main room in our house that we have to pass through to get to the kitchen and garden, so I had to keep DC out of there as much as possible while he was doing conference calls etc most of the day.

You’re doing fine. Mine did a bit of maths homework this morning and made some bread then the rest of the day they’ve been playing games or sat outside. I’m not going to stress myself out by making strict plans only for them to go wrong. Go with the flow

I'm failing on all fronts. On my own with 8&10yr old ft demanding job. Trying to chair s teleconference this am with kids on verge of ww3. It's a special kind of hell...

One thing I am finding hard is that my DD is not very academic. She is artistic, imaginative and creative, but quite slow to pick things up with reading and writing and maths. I am finding that a lot of the resources online for her age group, are too hard for her and she is getting bored or frustrated, but the things aimed at the year below are too easy. She was in the process of being diagnosed with ASD when this all began, and she had been receiving some extra support at school and she was progressing well but I don't know how to do what they did and it's making me a bit upset because I want to teach her but I don't know how. I always appreciated her school and the work her teachers do, but now I appreciate it more than ever.

Yesterday we started the day with Joe Wicks Workout, then I picked a topic at random from her child's encyclopedia and we learned about it and I got her to draw pictures related to it (we were looking at how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly), we played a card matching game, she did some practising of tracing lines and shapes and letters from a workbook that's meant to help with writing, and I read her a story. Then we went for a walk.

Today we skipped PE because I was too achy, she has watched a lot of youtube. Played in the garden. We played school (me and DD were the teachers and taught her teddies some basic phonics), then she played an educational game on BBC bite size, followed by some of their fun games.

It is hard and I don't think any of us are failing. Housework, work work if applicable, care for our kids, teach them something if we are lucky, money worries, other Corona related stresses. I'm trying to not be too hard on myself while all this is going. We all have a lot on our plates.

I have a 3 year with ASD and GDD, and a 9 month old. My son started nursery this month. He was given a pack to try. I've had the worst dizziness for ages. My 9 month old had terrible nappy rash so it super clingy and upset because she's so sore. She's absolutely miserable. My son can't stand her crying either. His attention span and interaction is a struggle at the best of time.

Theyve squabbled over the squash bottle, cutlery and a plastic tray

Many tears from everyone today. One of those 'getting through the day in one piece' kind of days.

On the plus side: DS has eaten a cheese sandwich for the first time all week, plus a couple of other new foods. The house is in a semi decent order, DP has been quite productive with work, we've had lots of fresh air as DS has played outside and bounced on the trampoline for ages.

Can't win them all.

Don't worry, OP. It's a fraught and uncertain time. Our mental health is a precious thing right now

I'm exhausted.

DD (14) is just getting on with it. Her school are doing loads of stuff online and have sent them home with tons of work and thankfully she's a self starter so she's getting on with it.

DS (7) also has a lot coming from school. His class teacher is fantastic and is basically delivering lessons by recording videos and then providing the online materials to go with it... but getting him to do it is tough. He wants to climb the furniture, run about... basically anythinng but what's in front of him. He did get down to it eventually this morning though.

Less said about their online art lesson this afternoon the better though

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I’m not even gonna pretend like we’re doing something other than what we feel like. Our world has been turned on it’s head and we are making the most of some family togetherness time (while I gaze longingly at the gin)

Life seems to be a long round of arguing, laughing, throwing snacks at them and me saying ‘how can you possibly be hungry, you JUST ate!!!’

Games. Sun. Time in the garden. Cooking together. Music. Tv. Cuddles on the sofa. That’s the home school life for us right now