1. Pull your kids out of public education, so that you become solely responsible for their academic success.
2. Cram a week’s worth of dinosaur curriculum into two days, in preparation for a field trip to the science museum, two hours away.
3. Set up your exhibit booth in Minneapolis, for the next day’s national youth conference prior to driving back to the science museum in St. Paul. Oh, and definitely do all this in an unfamiliar metropolitan area with missing street signs.
4. Catch up with family you haven’t seen for six months, the evening after visiting the science museum. Attend a football game with them.
5. Bring your two elementary-aged children along on each of the previous steps, as well as two days of a national conference. Make the four-hour roundtrip home in-between the two days.
Now it’s your turn. How have YOU overextended yourself??
Other Homeschooling Experiment milestones:
The Beginning
Week One - Starting with a Frazzle
Five Steps to Drive Yourself off a Cliff
Week Two - Just when I thought I knew what I was doing
Week Three — Let there be CRAFTS!
One-month Review
D’s Review at One Month
Week Five - Stress and frustration
Week Seven - Flip-flopping curriculum
Note to self - Consider having low expectations some weeks
Two-Month Review — Some aha moments
Three-Month Review — Not all peaches and cream
Four-Month Review — Loving ancient history
Five-Month Review — What I underestimated
Six-Month Review - Let’s Just Skip this Month
Seven-Month Review — Curriculum Review
D’s research paper — Save the Earth Saturday series
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Guinea Pig
All posts about the experiment — including WAY-COOL FIELD TRIPS!
HOMESCHOOL EXPERIMENT RESULTS SERIES:
WHY WE STARTED
the JOYS
the STRUGGLES
the FUTURE for us
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7:01 am
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8:23 am
It sounds like you have had quite the week. I will post a similar one when we get ready to make the 10 hour trip for Thanksgiving. Our son doesn’t do well on Drammimine withdrawal, so he should be a REAL pleasant individual to be around.
8:29 am
Anytime life manages me instead of me managing life! Which is more often than I’d care to admit.
Live and learn, baby, live and learn.
(Hope you don’t mind me commenting so many in a row…it’s kind of embarrassing, but I’ve not been able to for quite a while, and, well…there are just some peeps I gotta catch up with!) Thanks for your BC Carnival post…there are only THREE so far!
8:45 am
Meredith - I don’t envy your 10 hour trip! But I discovered the magic of Dramamine this week and can’t believe I’ve never used it before!
Robin. You know I hate it when people comment on my blog. Especially when they comment on many posts. What planet are you ON??? (Thanks, by the way, and I can’t wait to see your carnival!!)
9:08 pm
How about a 20 hour trip to Texas from Michigan to Texas on a Thursday with my (then) five children. Four of which were in my brother-in-law’s wedding that Saturday. We arrived on Friday in time for the rehearsal. Did the wedding thing on Saturday. Turned around and left for the twenty hour trip home on Sunday. Back to work on Monday. Not something for the faint of heart to be sure.
4:28 am
Hmmm . . . I don’t think I have anything that can compare to that!
4:57 am
YIKES Spunky! That sounds really awful. Were you wishing your brother-in-law had eloped?
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11:14 pm
I don’t know how you do it. Every now and then I toy with the idea, and thankfully, I have a few years before I actually have to make the decision. I guess when you have a toddler, homeschooling is defacto, but given that he’s ahead already with writing and counting, I dread the thought of him being dumbed down in public school. Luckily though, there’s a delicious little charter school in our area that I think I can get him on the list for. (crosses fingers)