Every year I try really, really hard to get as much done as I possibly can so the week before Christmas is stress-free and lots of fa-la-la-la fun! Every year, I find myself running around like a crazy lady getting last-minute things done and tending to crazy surprises that have popped up to add the the chaos. I had all my big gift shopping done just after Thanksgiving. I ordered supplies for our church Christmas events at the beginning of December. So I thought I had everything under control. Not so, lady. Not by a long shot. So here I was, today, sweating bullets for my Oriental Trading box to arrive because the party is tomorrow night is the church Christmas party and this momma has got to get Santa's gift bags together and delivered to the church. My mother-in-law came to watch the kids so I could run to three different towns to do some last-minute errands. I'm so thankful for her! My husband has been in his own Christmas season rush...
Did your grandparents ever tell you tales of the way things used to be? Wash on Monday, iron on Tuesday...and ending the week with baths on Saturday? Well, here in good ole' 2016, we still do Saturday night baths in this house. Not for the sake of tradition, but it is for the sake of being clean for church on Sunday morning. After a week of summer, my kids are coated in layers of sweat, sunscreen, sand, chlorine, dirt, peanut butter, jelly, and Kool-Aid. In fact, Saturday night may be the only bath they take all week. I am not against cleanliness. I'm all for it! The problem lays with timing. And our summer schedule. If we play all day and swim before bed, they're passably clean. Baths can wait for another day. If we play all day and go to the drive-in movies, they go straight to bed. If we play all day and we're planning to go to the water park the next morning, we skip baths. If the lightning bugs are begging to be ...
Recently I met with a mom friend who was fed up with her children's experiences in public school. Too much. Too hard. Too soon. That's why we homeschool. We can take our time. We do not have to push them with rigorous academics beginning in kindergarten. And today I was thinking about some other mom friends who homeschool and are very comfortable with their methods, which may include taking multiple days off at a time when needed. It also includes "organic" learning, which occurs when the children/students ask their parent/teacher to teach them subjects that have arisen from natural curiosity. No pushing to achieve certain skills by certain ages or dates. Just let the children develop these skills naturally in their own time. A very gentle approach with a relaxed pace. There are others in the homeschool movement who choose to drive their students academically and their children begin community college by age 1...
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