Accepting the fact I cannot teach my kids and suck up $$ for tutors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, accept it.

Knowing how to read doesn't mean you understand the pedagogy or that you have any kind of gift for teaching.

Most of us whose kids struggled with executive function issues, ADHD, or just immaturity didn't see it as babysitting, or monitoring, but rather professional assistance with teaching the skills our kids were lacking.

Exactly!

It truly boggles my mind how people just up and decide to 'homeschool' their children with their own, arbitrarily decided upon, curriculum. FWIW, I do have an advanced degree and am at least competent in subjects on high school level (and whatever I've forgotten I could probably make up) but it does not mean that I'm qualified to teach any of those subjects, or would know what's required at each grade at every level of placement.

My eight-year-old is a good student and we haven't had any issues with homework so far -- not that it has been a lot of homework --but going forward, I might have to suck up $$ for AP geometry. I sure as hell am not teaching a teen myself!

I hear you, OP.

[Anonymous]

My dad was a professor of chemistry. I started coming home with Ds and Fs in 10th grade Chem. He tried to tutor me for about 2 months. Every night after dinner we would go over the material covered in class. I hated that time. There was a lot of crying on my part and frustration on his part. My parents hired a tutor. It was worth it for family harmony.