Homeschooling - how are you feeling this evening?

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I work 4 days (now from home) and both dc (junior school) have learning schedules with daily live video assemblies thrown in. Younger dc needs a lot of handholding, I have to sit next to him, get him started, explain the tasks etc.

I feel so anxious and stressed about 7 weeks (or more of this). I basically feel like a rabbit in the headlight and just want to go to sleep.

How are you all feeling?

So worried. Svhool starts back tomorrow, and it's our first experience of homeschooling DD5. Reading threads on here has got me panicking. Had hoped the school wouldn't be expecting too much but this doesn't seem to be the case? Both DH and I wfh, and we also have DS3 who needs a lot of attention. I have no idea how we'll cope. It seems like the odds are massively stacked against working parents and nobody cares if you have a job to do too?

Shit is how I'm feeling

Dreading it.

The arguments, the nagging, the tantrums.

I’m trying not to think about . School have upped their game so they are giving work that spans the day with plenty of live learning. I can’t get my head around the time scale, I’m hoping after feb half term they will return but I know this is unlikely.
I will worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.

I feel really anxious and stressed by it all. My youngest age 4 has a timetable from 9-3 each day and trying to get him to do it is a nightmare. If schools are not open by February half term which I don't think they will I will just give up. Not even a whole week in and I'm struggling.

It's not too bad here but that is because mine are older- one is 15 and doing GCSE revision. So he gets on with it himself, younger is 11 and also manages by himself most of the time with some help for e.g. printing stuff off. Work is all on Google classroom and they follow their timetable from school. So it is mainly a matter of making lunch and snacks really. It still seems to drag on at times though.

I'd feel a whole lot better if the work was available tonight so I wasn't go in blind on top of working. We've also found our most productive hour is 8-9AM so that means I need to be getting ready early so I can look at the work and have it printed and ready by then

Homeschooling? Ds1 has to go to school tomorrow to sit his first ever GCSE paper.....
Apart from that DH and I both work out of the home so we have to leave 2 ds at home alone 5 days a week and hope that they’re conscientious enough to stick at it for the next few weeks. They’re 12 and 15.

I already have a stress headache

@MrsJonesAndMe

I'd feel a whole lot better if the work was available tonight so I wasn't go in blind on top of working. We've also found our most productive hour is 8-9AM so that means I need to be getting ready early so I can look at the work and have it printed and ready by then

I've actually (and I think a lot of parents have) requested they make it available the night before. Negotiating with my arsehole of a printer at 9am while trying to log the class call on and my own is not my idea of fun. I was made to feel like I was some kind of unreasonable parent wanting to push my kid to get ahead initially - but they've started doing it now so I think more parents asked.

But, having said that I did find that with the last lockdown I just focused getting through each day at a time, as if I looked to the future I became full of anxiety. Need to start doing that again, and just focusing on today.

I feel physically ill at the thought that this will be weeks and week. Even thought my DCs school is (IMO) doing a great job. 3 live lessons, they’re quite brief as yr 2, they log on, have an overview lesson, do an example then go off and complete a bit of work. It’s writing, maths and reading, so the basics are covered plus they upload extra tasks online to do independently, I’m just doing the bare minimum. But even so I just feel sick about it all.

Dd's teacher hasn't sent the work through and said it'll be on the class group page tomorrow, that's no use to me, I'm working 10 til 3 and need to get everything ready for my Mum who is looking after her.

If there's anything that needs printing I'm stuck because dh prints it off at work.

Luckily dd1's teacher was more organised and sent her work across on Thursday.

Honestly I am dreading getting up tomorrow. It started off well but by the end of the week WFH and schooling a reluctant, easily distracted year 2 and older SEN child has me feeling like I'm useless.

Sick and anxious. I don't work, but my ds is 5yo, non complliant, willful and lazy. He's ok at school, just cannot get his head around why he has to do school work at home. It's painful.

My ASD teen will not go to school as it’s a hub and not their normal routine. They will do very little work themselves due to poor attention so they’ll get help in my morning in my tea break and then during my lunch break if I get one. Other than that zilch same as the last lockdown

I feel awful. Wfh full time, DC in yr 7 and 5 and a toddler too. Partner looks after the toddler and I supervise the school work. They did their best but still had to play catch up yesterday.

There's just nothing nice to plan or look forward to. Traipsing round the streets in the cold weather, trying to keep distance from everyone doing the same has long since lost any appeal.

@Strawberrypancakes

We’ve been told everything has to be uploaded by 3pm. I just can’t do that, DH & I (I’m sure like so many others!) are working from home all day but need to actually work and be on calls.. we’ve been helping them at lunch and after work.. surely that’s understandable. Not everyone has the time to help them finish everything by 3pm.

My DD1 is really a stickler for rules and she’s so stressed out by it she’s cried.

It's demands like this that are giving me the rage at the moment. Parents are trying to juggle their normal workload AND this and there seems to be a lot of assumptions that the normal workload can just completely back off between 9 and 3pm and that we can get kids onto timed online calls constantly, and work emailed in by a given time - which yes, you probably can do with an older child who is just working through stuff independently - but lower end of primary, or a child with some SN... no way.

@Strawberrypancakes - your dd being stressed out is not what the school will want, and is counterproductive to her learning. I would tell the class teacher what you can do and get them to message to tell your dd that that is fine

Happy birthday @EcoCustard!

We'll skip PE too probably and get started on maths.

Sunday dinner cooked and tidied away, laptops, pens and paper all set up in the kitchen ready to go. Work will suffer and I'm considering resigning but will try to hang in there. I like to do things properly and this multi tasking of a near full-time job and 2X FT home schooling is very daunting.

Ds2 acting very silly this evening and my patience is already......... stretched. 5 weeks to go not 7

Fine. DH and I have been preparing live lessons for most of the weekend. We don't have any DCs at home so it's easy for us to just enjoy the lessons tbh.

I feel stressed and I'm not currently working. I've no idea how people do it all while working full time. Elder DD is 9. She's trustworthy, motivated and hardworking, but has additional needs. Sometimes she needs me to explain it all to her (ok if it's maths, English I'm not always sure what the teacher wants, other topics vary... I got completely stuck on Computing and needed to watch the lesson video with her)
Younger DD is 7. She's easily distracted and doesn't always listen. So will go off on a complete range in her work unless you keep on top of her. Apparently she does really well in school... She seems to work better in a group all doing the same thing.

Fortunately it's prerecorded lessons so we can go at our own pace. Im dreading them introducing live lessons... For one thing our internet wouldn't cope. The other would be the rigid schedule. The teachers are contactable 8.30-4.430 at the moment to allow flexibility.

I’m feeling really down and very tired. Wfh with a year 5 and year 6 child. Year 6 needs occasional help but works really slow. Year 5 I have to sit next to him and push him all day. The amount of work being set is a lot more than March lockdown when they were finished by 1pm and I could get on with my work.

Honestly I'm sat here drinking and dreading it.

Google live (or whatever it's called) live lessons for y2 and it's such a bloody waste of time. One maths worksheet takes an hour and a half. Ditto one English worksheet.

I'd rather Dd just did the work. She gets nothing out of the live lessons. She's sat there bored witless.

She does the work in 5 mins.

We do Other work too which she loves.

Seriously thinking of deregistering so we can do our own work (I home educated her brother through primary so I know what I'm doing).

I'm so fucked off.