I hope it’s ok to pop in and ask this question. My dc are home from school at the moment, so we’re not home schoolers, but muddling along. I’m curious how those of you who do approach holidays and weekends. Do you take a break? Or distinguish between them?
Mine are used to a breakneck pace of school, homework, and extra classes and sports in term time and have always been great at entertaining themselves on weekends and holidays when they have time to pursue interests and big plans.
At the moment, everything has slowed right down. I’ve incorporated their own interests and hobbies into our school work with lots of reading, lego projects and self directed learning, but incorporating the goals set by school, to a greater or lesser extent. The problem I’m finding is that they are bored now at the weekends, without the structure of the week. And it’s no longer a rare opportunity to play for ages with Lego, if they’ve done that during the week.
But I need the break. I need a chance to process what they’re doing, plan for the next week. As much as it looks like going with the flow and reacting to their interests, there’s a bit more effort going into it on my side. And between that extra mental load, and all the extra worry, I need some downtime.
And now the Easter holidays are looming and I’m not sure whether to follow the school year and take a complete break or keep going.
I’m curious how you approach this as homeschoolers. And whether lockdown is changing your approach.