Home for one, school for others?

[Sithmummy]

We have recently taken the decision to home-educate our ds2 after a lot of soul-searching. No problems so far, but I would like to know if anyone can let me know what to expect from his siblings. They are in years 6 and 4 and have always loved school. They have great groups of friends and are doing really well and are not at all interested in being 'taught' by boring mum. They do, however, think that 5-year-old is babied by me and I sense a bit of resentment that he's getting loads more of my attention. Trying to find a balance and I know it's new for all of us. Have any of you got any top tips?

If he is EHE, you'll be able to meet his needs when the others are at school, so perhaps you can spend more time with them after school?

currently we have on at home and two in school (the intention is to take the other two out of school at the end of this summer term).

What works is to give lots of attention to the school two when they get home (and before school) - and the other one gets lots during the day. Seems to work for us.

If your other two are happy at school, and it works for them, then I would leave them there.

My only comment is I am looking forward to not being constrained by school start and end times - we would probably start earlier than 9 if we didn't have to do the school run at 8.30. It also means we have to stop anything for the 3pm school run too. we "waste" over an hour a day just on the school run, plus all the pre school morning stuff - I am looking forward to having that time back to do something useful with.

Thanks for that. No intention to take the older children out of school because they are so happy there. The biggest adjustment seems to be for me as I had got used to not having any at home during the school day. Think I may have developed one or two rather selfish habits as a result of no-one being around (hours spent browsing, I mean researching)! I agree with what you say about the school run, but it's been my life for 8 years now. Love the holidays when I can forget about watching the clock.