Question for Long-Term MUS users…

Jen, don’t feel bad! I had a long phone conversation with a precious friend last night, and she reminded me that, like you, my daughter is ONLY 7. She even said that homeschooling is not a journey where we get immediate reward and gratification; we have to wait a LONG time before we see the real fruits of our labor along the way. That helped to put things into perspective for me. My dd is just 7. She is having some difficulty in math and has since lesson 18 of Alpha. It’s taken us 13 weeks to get to lesson 25–slow going. But my friend said to really think about what my end goal for her in math is. Is she going to be a math professor or a rocket scientist? I doubt it–not because she’s not able, but because she has always told us that she wants to be a mommy, and I’m sure not going to push that desire out of her heart with academics. I think my end goal for dd is to master basic algebra. If she desires to go further in her math studies, the opportunity will be available for her; but I’m not going to push now because I *think* that advanced calculus has to be our end result. It doesn’t. If she wants to go to college, I will do everything in my power to equip her for that, even if that means enrolling her in community college classes for advanced math. But if basic algebra is my end goal, I’ve got quite a long time to make that happen. I just wanted to encourage you with that today since this is something I’ve struggled with as well. Hope you have a great day!

Lindsey