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How Do YOU Manage? (Your Input Needed)
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A common default for not homeschooling is the feeling that it can't be managed with all the other demands of life. Some parents feel too overwhelmed with work schedules, church involvement, housework, caregiving, or many of life's other pulls to add homeschooling into the mix.
Others (and we who homeschool probably all find ourselves in this category at one time or another) have decided to plunge ahead, but we still can't figure out quite how to juggle everything we have to do. Here are some of the questions that we struggle with. Maybe you'll find your situation among them.
- How do we manage teaching several different ages while still trying to put supper on the table?
- How do we manage teaching a level of math we don't feel comfortable with, or something completely unknown to us such as a foreign language?
- How do we manage handling the aspects involved with our special needs child while giving enough attention to our other children?
- How do we keep the house in some semblance of order and also keep our homeschooling supplies organized in a way where we can quickly get our hands on what we need?
- How do we manage teaching one child alone so that they will remain motivated and not become bored?
- How do we manage bills on one income?
- How do we manage our daily school schedules and find time to do everything that we think we should along with trips to the grocery store, doctor appointments, impromptu visits from family or neighbors and so forth?
- How do we manage providing opportunities for our children's unique interests such as sports, drama, band, or other things that aren't so easily done at home?
- How do we manage putting together a high school transcript or preparing for the ACTs?
This list could go on and on. I'm interested in opening up a forum for discussion here, sharing ways in which each of us have dealt with the issue of MANAGEMENT. If you have particular questions, or if you have encouraging ideas or can share things that have worked for you, PLEASE POST A COMMENT.
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