Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-17T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Branson, MO

Tagged: contentment, over planning, perfectionism, perfectionist, planning

This topic has 26 replies, 18 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 1 month ago by Claire.

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March 16, 2013 at 6:34 pm
TailorMade
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I hope this link will work. It’s to a YouTube video of Sally Clarkson called “The Myth of the Perfect Life.”
If it doesn’t go straight to the video, look her name up in the YouTube search bar. The Seasons of a Mothers Heart videos are wonderful, too.
http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=2FmsSYp1MCM
Blessings,
Becca<><
March 16, 2013 at 6:48 pm
4myboys
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This has really blessed me today, too. I am going to really pray about how to go forward from here with our final term. I really need to simplify everything and just enjoy my kids. Thanks so much!
March 16, 2013 at 11:14 pm
Kristen
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Yes. This hits the nail on the head for me. After awhile I just have to make a decision which I think will work best about the best ___________ and go from there. Stop wasting my time looking for another better book and just use what I have. Great article too.
Thanks for depleting this.
March 17, 2013 at 3:07 am
Mysterious Lady in Pink
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What a great thread! Thanks for bumping it! It would be interesting to hear from some of the original posters (if ther are still around) and see how they are doing with this 3 years later.
I’m a long time homeschooler, and unfortunately have found that this a problem of perfectionism that rears itself still too often in my life — whether in homeschooling or other areas. I wish it was a one-time challenge that was overcome with finality!! lol But I can totally relate to all the posts. All too much. <sigh>
March 17, 2013 at 3:27 am
missceegee
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I am an orig. poster, and I still struggle with this issue, esp. at this time of year. I do find myself handling it better by not sinking into the planning for perfection mode quite so deeply or for such long lengths of time as I have in the past. I too wish it could be overcome with finality!
March 17, 2013 at 9:55 am
Joanne Downing
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Thanks for this thread – i really need it! I plan constantly and achieve nothing – or if we start it i then end up swapping – and i too end up frustrated and believing home schooling is too difficult and i’m not up to the job…..Thanks for the highlight of it – God’s been trying to show me but i’m slow on the up take ‘sigh’ i too have a melancholy’ personality – it drives my dh mad a bit – and the perfectionism of home schooling / curriculum/ which book or version to use etc etc can put me on the floor. So thank you….I’m not sure how to stop the cycle – but at least I am aware of the cycle.
March 17, 2013 at 12:14 pm
missceegee
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I’m a total type a personality. Fwiw.
I should add that it helps to keep my end goals in the forefront of my mind. The other huge help is more fully understanding the philosophy of the method I’ve chosen. As I understand it more fully, I trust it more. The more I trust the method, the better I apply it and the less focused I am on planning. Does that make sense out loud? It does in my head.
February 11, 2014 at 1:43 am
missceegee
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Bumping to Encourage others.
February 11, 2014 at 4:21 pm
momto2blessings
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Thanks for bumping. I need to hear this regularly. Slow learner:) It gets harder for me to relax the older they get, I think. Though I’m thankful for their independence! Thanks for the reminder about perfection not being possible this side of heaven….I can tend to beat myself up.
“The curriculum that gets done is far superior to the superior curriculum that doesn’t.”
February 11, 2014 at 7:18 pm
cherylramirez
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Last year I “backslid” and fell into the trap of the perfect plan. It was a most disruptive year for my children because I kept switching this and tweaking that. This new school year will not be like that again! i will stick with what I know (simple CM methods)and be content that they will learn on their own. Sometimes the CM way seems “too easy” and that’s when the planning monster takes over. I realized recently that the CM method does work: my ds11 has a birthday coming in April. My husband suggested a “camo” theme, but my son wants to have a Greek-themed birthday and wants everyone to come in togas! My dd16 said, “only a homeschooler would want a party like that!”
February 13, 2014 at 9:23 pm
blue j
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I needed this today after sleeping for 2 hours in the middle of the day because I couldn’t keep my eyes open any longer. I am in the midst of a huge flare which is so draining to my body. I had begun some initial planning, but have dropped almost everything as the health issues continue to sap me of all my “umph”. I am a recovering box-checker/ perfectionist, and I wonder if God isn’t blessing me through this health issue which is helping me (read: forcing me) to set down almost everything that isn’t absolutely essential. A long winded way of saying thanks for bumping this up.

February 14, 2014 at 10:31 pm
Claire
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I love this post!
I was just going to post something about having what some would classify as “less than productive” days and whether or not I should be concerned and think myself a failure because of them. Ha ha! You all have spoken loudly and I hear you and I’m so happy I popped on here.
I am not a “box checker” by nature. I’m probably more of a dreamer. Most definately not a type A personality but I am plagued with thinking that I should be these things. I’m married to a super type A man (they make great men/husbands/dads imho) and I think sometimes that causes me to struggle more with what I’m doing. My oldest child is somewhat like this too and I wonder if I’m doing her a disservice not being a more hard core homeschooling mom with more agressive, higher expectations.