This past year has been one of the hardest years of our homeschooling experience. Nothing seemed to go completely right, or even somewhat right. Everything was a struggle.
I asked my daughter the other day, why don't we just decide to work as hard the first six weeks as we have to do the last six weeks of school, then do it one more time, and we can then have 10 months off. She's actually considering it.
Passionate people sometimes have trouble doing things step by step. We do things lunge by lunge instead. I don't know that it is bad; maybe it is just a different way. There must be some advantages to doing things in this way, or some careers where this is a great thing.
I try to remind parents with whom I talk that the annoying things their kids do are probably a misdirected gift. For example, a stubborn child is just determined in the wrong direction. The child needs redirected, not crushed. When that child grows up and finds his or her cause, they will not be able to be deterred. And that IS good.
So, now I have to figure out what the advantage to doing things lunge by lunge is. Then I can justify it, right?
Onwards & upwards!
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You're right about re-direction. Our oldest's strong will had to be channeled in good directions.
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