{"id":15,"date":"2021-03-19T16:37:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/?p=15"},"modified":"2021-03-19T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T16:48:08","slug":"learning-with-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/learning-with-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning with Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"15\" class=\"elementor elementor-15\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-28807fd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"28807fd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5cbc741\" data-id=\"5cbc741\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f1b14b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f1b14b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Homeschooling can be hard some days.\u00a0 Now that I think about it, life is hard some days.<\/p><p>How are you supposed to sit down and teach your kids when you&#8217;ve got a to-do list more than a mile long?<\/p><p>I&#8217;ve learned many things over these years of homeschooling. One of those things, is that Mom has to be present. That&#8217;s a lot of pressure.<\/p><p>Mom has to be present physically as well as emotionally and spiritually. If she&#8217;s not, it affects the homeschooling day, at least it does for me.<\/p><p>So what are you supposed to do?<\/p><p>I learned early, when my kids were young, that I needed my own time. I needed to feel like I wasn&#8217;t in a hectic rush. I needed to feel wholeheartedly, 100% present to teach, be patient, and answer questions.<\/p><p>There will be days when you have to say, &#8220;No, school today. We have other things we need to do.&#8221;<\/p><p>It doesn&#8217;t matter what it is, running errands, cleaning the house, church work, helping others, etc., it just needs to be done.\u00a0 And you know what? The kids can help.\u00a0<\/p><p>They&#8217;ll learn from it too. They&#8217;ll learn how to cope with a long to do list, by watching you.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll learn how to prioritize, how to deal with people, etc.<\/p><p>You are not a failure when you can&#8217;t keep up with your well-intentioned homeschool schedule.<\/p><p>Most times, kids will learn about life, just by being with you, and doing things with you.<\/p><p>So, go ahead, put the regular schedule aside for today. Tackle that to-do list with the kids. Talk it through with them, let them know what needs to be done.\u00a0<\/p><p>Things will be better tomorrow. I promise.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homeschooling can be hard some days.\u00a0 Now that I think about it, life is hard some days. How are you supposed to sit down and teach your kids when you&#8217;ve got a to-do list more than a mile long? I&#8217;ve learned many things over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/allabouthomeschooling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}