I have overloaded my cart, I think…
Of course, I want my daughter to have an excellent home school education. I want her to have the basics or core curriculum of language arts, math, science, and social studies. I want her to have literature studies, and spelling. I want her to have supplemental science studies, Spanish, music, and art. Ok, so supplemental science, Spanish, music, and art are not core curricula, but I still want her to them.
My problem is that I am having a little bit of trouble balancing all of those things. There doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day, and while I really want her to have the supplemental enrichment courses, I am having trouble fitting it all in.
Part of the problem is that my daughter has a sleep disorder, in addition to her ADHD. What this means is that sometimes she doesn’t sleep. When she doesn’t sleep at night, no amount of ADHD medication will help her focus the next day. So she might be awake, but unable to focus on school.
Or, she might not go to sleep early, then the next day she sleeps really late. Which means that we don’t get an early start. By 4:30pm I’m ready to stop school and have a little bit of adult time, but if we haven’t done enough school, then I don’t feel like we can stop.
This backs up dinner, makes it hard to keep house, hard to have “me” time. Ok, I’m not complaining, not really, I knew when I took on home schooling that my child marched to the beat of a different drummer. I’m just feeling a little overwhelmed today. Sometimes I just need to vent it a little…ever feel that way?






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