If you want to make your child homesick; simply home school for six years and then enroll them in school. The rest is history. Steven misses us. I miss him. Brother misses him. But Steven misses us! He hates all these projects and the point value assigned to them. He feels constantly busy and overwhelmed. He has very little free time when he gets home since he has so much to do this week in preparation of these end of the quarter projects that are due.
I explained to him if he were to come home he would still have projects. And he would still have to budget his time better that what he is used to. As he gets older, these long term projects are going to get more and more frequent.
I also told him that I wasn't pulling him out right now. If he is still voicing these same concerns at semester; Dad, Steven and I will talk about it. But not right now. He's going to have to suck it up and deal with it. I think once this quarter is over he will change his mind. I think it's mainly all these projects he has due. But the truth is; he's sitting pretty with these projects. He's not going to have any problems turning them in on time. I think he's just nervous since he's never had deadlines before this year.
Right now I'm not planning on his return. I'm not worried about pulling him out or if this is going to be a fight w/ the school or certain family members. I'm simply relishing the fact that Steven misses us. And in some strange way; that makes the pain of missing him a little more bearable.
first grade pictures
Isaac "Harley" Wilson
Highschool Musical Tryouts
Steven and Isaac
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I think you're right to not allow him to drop it right now.
I'm not sure if you're looking for advice here and I'm not even sure I'm qualified to give it but I keep thinking about how hard it was for you to teach him at that level and all of the reasons that you had for putting him in public school and you knew this would not be an easy transition but that it's a necessary one. So, if I do have advice, it's that I think you should keep him in school because he needs to learn to cope with these pressures. That's part of this process.
I don't doubt that you already know that and I'm certain that you are weighing that, I just hope you don't lose focus of that when you're missing him.
Or maybe I just missed the entire point of this point and will be eating my toes soon. :-)
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You will do what is best for him. You always do...you and Steve are awesome parents.
thanks girls. I guess I just wanted to vent more than anything. Things seem to be resolved. He turned in his science project today and will turn in the reading one tomorrow. My thoughts on the whole thing is that he can't run home everytime the going gets tough. HOWEVER there are some things more important than projects and deadlines. The love of learning will always supercede how a teacher teaches. If he looses that, I'll pull him in a heartbeat.
But no worries. We got him all straightened out.
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