Sharing homeschooling when the parents have different ideas about how much is enough

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think what they want is unreasonable. After all, many parents provide foreign language or art or music as a before or after school activity. Maybe what you need is something that's not worksheet-directed. Spanish can be watching Muzzy or playing online word matching games or watching Spanish language cartoons or songs while grandma or the cousin prepares lunch. Art can be a simple project the kids do together.

I also think limiting it to 2-3 days a week might work well.

They didn’t sign up to supervise kids doing more schoolwork, unless THEY decided to do something. You don’t change the terms after agreeing to childcare, especially when relatives are doing childcare for you (paid or unpaid doesn’t matter).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You posted before and it sounded like a disaster. Your husband is a SAHD, what on earth is he doing that he isn't involved with all 3 of his kids? You need to hire a caregiver/nurse for that child and he needs to stop neglecting the other two.

They are right. You have 6 kids with all different academic needs and each should be using a formal homeschooling curriculum, especially the older kids.

If they were smart, they'd hire child care and do DL. What you are doing is not responsible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You posted before and it sounded like a disaster. Your husband is a SAHD, what on earth is he doing that he isn't involved with all 3 of his kids? You need to hire a caregiver/nurse for that child and he needs to stop neglecting the other two.

They are right. You have 6 kids with all different academic needs and each should be using a formal homeschooling curriculum, especially the older kids.

If they were smart, they'd hire child care and do DL. What you are doing is not responsible.

Yeah, no. Dad is staying home to take care of the child with sn, because Hereford he’s primarily with that child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You posted before and it sounded like a disaster. Your husband is a SAHD, what on earth is he doing that he isn't involved with all 3 of his kids? You need to hire a caregiver/nurse for that child and he needs to stop neglecting the other two.

They are right. You have 6 kids with all different academic needs and each should be using a formal homeschooling curriculum, especially the older kids.

If they were smart, they'd hire child care and do DL. What you are doing is not responsible.

OP Here, all of my kids are getting a formal homeschooling curriculum. I have no idea where you get the idea that they aren't.

You will probably be mind boggled to know that after taking a 50% decrease in HHI, and thousands of dollars of medical bills, we don't actually have the money to hire a full time nurse, and my child's needs wouldn't be served by someone with less training than that.