All I can say is that I know how MamaWebb feels. I have 6 children, and right at this very moment I’m wondering what in the world I’m doing. Is any of this worth it? Serioulsy. The bad attitudes around here are just wearing me down.
I know everyone says character training and all, but I am human and I am TIRED. I can’t even get one of mine to copy down some math work (which he acted terrible about during this lesson).
How do you MAKE them do something they refuse to do? I guess I just don’t have it figured out and maybe I never will. But I haven’t had much success with it lately. And I am wondering how in the world will I do this dance this year, shuffling 6 children at 6 different stages of math, reading, etc?
For now, my 13YO son is wading through Apologia General Science (and this is our 2nd ATTEMPT as he didn’t do it last year though he was supposed to), but I just can’t see it being our High School course.
I think it is great for people who have it figured out how to get your children to submit, but I haven’t figured it out. We take away privileges (scouts), but they don’t have cell phones or game boys or computers (we have 2 family ones) or a lot of privileges *typical* teens have … so I guess I’m OT except to say I totally get where MamaWebb is coming from.
If your child hates science (or even school as my 12YO does; yes, he really does), then what do you do???