Welcome to day 2 of my home-schooling adventure. We had a week off last week because I was away with my darling daughter watching her compete in a cheerleading competition.
Today we are coping a little better than our first attempts. J has been relatively compliant ( I say relatively!) and we have only had one set of tears (his not mine).
He is currently asleep however!
What I am learning from the time I spend with him is that his bio-rhythms are completely out of sync with he school day. He likes to eat, pretty much constantly, and letting him do so while we are working has proved a successful strategy for today. He can also only really focus for about 15 minutes at a time before things start going down hill. I pushed past the 15 minutes to about 20 with a maths game we were playing on the iPad but in the end had to give up as he was lying on his side and not even really looking at the screen. Having concentrated on two short sessions of maths he then complained of a serious headache, to the point where I bundled him into bed, where he promptly fell asleep.
I spoke too soon about today being more successful :-(
J seemed happier after his sleep, had something to eat and came through to do spelling, asked me what we were doing after spelling and promptly burst into floods of tears when I told him we were going to research some facts from his Horrible History book (his favourite books!). I thought doing it on the computer would motivate him - but apparently now he HATES working on a computer.
Seriously - it feels like I just can't win. No matter what I try to motivate him it backfires. He refuses to even try and it becomes a major battle.
I really wonder why I am bothering.
Is this really going to make any difference!?
He is currently having full on tears and tantrum.
*sigh* better luck next time??
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