How is home schooling doing in your house?

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Because I feel that I am failing big time.
Ds is 14 and hates school at the best of time and dd is 12.
I am trying hard to help them with their work and today we had an email from the school recommending BBC bitesize daily but they are still so disinterested and it is like pulling teeth.
Dh is an essential worker so still out every day working full time so not much back up from him.
I am also helping my mum and dad everyday (as mum has Alzheimer’s and dad struggles) and I also look after a 90 year old lady in our village who has no one and I come back to find the dc haven’t done any work or with very minimal effort. I try sitting with them and go through the stuff but they have no interest.
We are doing things like cooking/baking, walking or cycling once a day etc but the complete lack of interest in anything school/education related is causing me so much stress as I feel I am letting them down.
What can I do to muster up some interest without it becoming an arduous task?
What are you doing with your dc?

We set work because some parents want it ( and from posts on here you can imagine the outcry if we didn't!) But we have no expectation that it will be done and we don't chase up if it isn't. We've started recording who has engaged with the work but simply so we know which children will require additional catch up when we do get back into school. We set a mixture of online activities, worksheets, practical and physical activities and parents can pick and choose which and how much they do. We understand the difficulties parents face and don't want to put pressure on anyone, just do what you can.

Its not really. 12 yr old here. Not much work on google classroom. He’s done what was there but were not going out of our way. Were busy walking, fixing dry stone walls, lambing, baking etc

I haven't even attempted it. My 2 school aged D.C. are both autistic and their mental wellbeing comes before any learning. DS is about to embark on 3 Advanced Highers which I couldn't even begin to help with. DD is primary school aged and will be absolutely fine without me stressing her out trying to teach her badly. I'm not a teacher and I don't know how to do their jobs and I don't want to. Fortunately for us we have very good schools, both of which have told us not to worry, they understand different circumstances and that it will all be fine when we return. My only concern is for DS and the Advanced Highers, ad he only had one year left in school, but tbh they are more about personal achievement anyway as his 5 Highers which he will get this year are enough to get into uni anyway.

I am gently pushing my six year old DS to try something different each day and fortunately, he loves Reading Eggs and Mathseed. He has SEN and dyslexia so I will be happy if he goes back to school with a better reading age.

Well bearing in mind a lot of families have parents working full time I expect a lot of kids are getting less input than yours are. I work a 70% contact and DH is full time. The year 7 child has demand avoidant ASD with TA support at school. We have been told any work she does is a bonus and not to force it. She’s choosing to do English which she excels at (and doesn’t need to do right now) and is ignoring maths which she struggles with. School have told us they will sort it when she returns. The NT year 5 child is being pretty good but is slow to start. We’re not keeping up with everything that is sent home but focussing in handwriting as that is her weakness.

I’m a teacher so it should theoretically be easier for me but I teach older teenagers and adults, students have varied in age between 16 and 66. Certainly have no experience in primary school teaching and my degree is in English, I’m awful at maths (luckily DH is an engineer though so maths is his forte!).

I’ve found it ok so far, I write a schedule the night before and largely stick to it which helps. I’ve found a million different websites and apps to help out.

I have a 13 and 15 year old. Both better when I shut the door and leave them to get on with the work set without interfering. As soon as I try to get involved the 13 year old moans
‘it’s not fair there’s too much work’ ( there’s not). 15 year old pretty studious and seems to be cracking on, 13 year old needs a bit of help working out the tech side every now and then. Both doing 2-3 hours including faffing for 13 year old.
Had a reassuring email from school yesterday to say they will have provisions in place to work out areas of weaknesses in the stuff they’ve self taught and support to help with those areas.

Before easter break it was sketchy at best and we never did all the work, restarted yesterday and still not managed to do everything tasked for that day. Dd spent about 3 hours doing a drawing and colouring task (inc literature) with breaks. Doubt she would be allowed that much time to do it at school. I am not going to sweat it atm, she had 1 to 1 additional learning at school every day and was set to have 2 sessions a day this term, I can't meet her academic needs but she is engaging and actively reading to herself at bedtime which isn't something I imagined would happen.

I have resorted to reward/bribing, she earns something by the end of the first week but the work has to continue as this thing she wants needs built on so she will want more stuff for it.

Generally were fine. Dd is 10 in Yr 6.
She does something everyday, and she does everything that school sends, they don't send a lot, maybe 3 small things a week. Hopefully that will increase now the easter hols are over. She much prefers doing things her teacher has asked her to do rather than pages of her cgp books.

We have a nice routine going on, and if there's days when dd doesn't want to do any school work then she doesn't do it. :)