People keep asking me how the school situation is going with #3.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a difficult question.\u00a0 I\u2019m never really sure how to answer it honestly.\u00a0 He likes it, but comes home from the school day completely exhausted.\u00a0 He\u2019s ready to head back in the mornings, but complains about the length of the school day.\u00a0 I agree with him.\u00a0 It\u2019s too long. <\/p>\n
He now spends more waking hours with strangers than he does with his own family.\u00a0 We miss him, and he misses us.\u00a0 In his eyes, the perfect solution would be for his teacher and classmates to come to our house for school.\u00a0 I would, but I\u2019m not sure where we would put everyone.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m finding it difficult to be a part-time parent.\u00a0 The few hours I get with him every night after homework is done and the neighborhood children are played with, is just not enough.\u00a0 This is the major drawback I have seen to traditional schooling.\u00a0 The Computer Guy and I have to share parenting with people we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 They spend much more time with him than do we.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a numbers game.\u00a0 Most of the time he\u2019s under our roof he\u2019s sleeping. <\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how other parents do this every day without the angst.\u00a0 How can I say that I am parenting him when I get to spend only an hour or two a night with him before bedtime routines begin?\u00a0 How do I shoehorn in all that he needs to know in such a short amount of time?\u00a0 How do other parents reconcile themselves to this?\u00a0 Is it just what we do, so it must be the right thing to do?<\/p>\n
I am watching my little boy assume the shape that other people are molding him into being.\u00a0 So far, it is one I can live with, but the power over him that this implies is a bit frightening.\u00a0 How can I protect a child I do not see?\u00a0 I know that eventually we have to let them go, but everything in me says that this is too much way too soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
How do we balance his need for an education with his need for parents?\u00a0 This is the answer to how is his schooling going?\u00a0 It is a lopsided, backwards tightrope walk and I can\u2019t help but feel as if we\u2019re missing something\u2026.and that the something might be him.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
People keep asking me how the school situation is going with #3.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a difficult question.\u00a0 I\u2019m never really sure how to answer it honestly.\u00a0 He likes it, but comes home from the school day completely exhausted.\u00a0 He\u2019s ready to head back in the mornings, but complains about the length of the school day.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n