I cannot manage this home schooling

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that?

Go away.

People like you are becoming the problem.

Actually people like you are the problem. Selfish and short sighted.

[Anonymous]

No zoom for our preschooler. Granted their school is not doing anything. It's enough that we try to do virtual story time with grandma and grandpa. Just read and talk and do some counting while she's eating.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just have the preschooler stop? It sucks that you’re still paying tuition but those activities are in no way mandatory.

+1

[Anonymous]

I'm sure they mean well and want to provide you something since you're paying for it, but oh my god what a waste of time doing zoom lessons with a preschooler! A PP said it's actually causing MORE work for you and they are right! Drop that crap like a hot potato.

[Anonymous]

Our PK4er loves the weekly class zoom, so we do that. We also spend an hour each day dedicated to her learning. Sometimes that’s the stuff her school “assigns,” sometimes it’s teach your monster to read, sometimes it’s the scholastic curriculum (we’re on grades 1-2 now and it’s no more advance dthan the PK/K one, just in case anyone else ran out of days) and sometimes it’s reading a book aloud. I don’t worry she’s falling behind.

[Anonymous]

^^ Sorry, I should have said explicitly: we also have 2 other kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our PK4er loves the weekly class zoom, so we do that. We also spend an hour each day dedicated to her learning. Sometimes that’s the stuff her school “assigns,” sometimes it’s teach your monster to read, sometimes it’s the scholastic curriculum (we’re on grades 1-2 now and it’s no more advance dthan the PK/K one, just in case anyone else ran out of days) and sometimes it’s reading a book aloud. I don’t worry she’s falling behind.

Op here. I spent an hour doing activities with my 3yo. She just turned 3 and we just potty trained her. DH told me I should not feel bad that some parents are doing elaborate art projects with their one and only.

I ended up having my older kids do art projects with the youngest. We did a few activities that the preschool sent to us. The activities only take 5-10 minutes.

Older kids also need less help now that the kids know how to access live meetings and assignments. That leaves more time to focus on the little one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that?

This is a very privileged way of thinking. You clearly have not taken a financial hit. You clearly do not know anyone who has taken a significant financial hit. You clearly do not read up on all the starving people in third-world countries throughout the world who are dying now and for a long time to come, because you are sitting in your house and yelling for everyone to stay home. You are telling other people that there is a much bigger picture when you yourself are not seeing the actual big picture. Our reaction to the virus can cause the collapse of our entire society. You just don't understand that because it is not affecting you.

[Anonymous]

op, you need to give yourself permission to not do the preschool stuff.

Also, art is about self expression. Any "elaborate art projects" you see are not actually appropriate for kids that age!

I have a tween and a teen with ADHD and am just barely hanging in there. You are TOTALLY fine with not doing any of the preschool stuff. However you are seeeing what other people are doing with their preschoolers - disconnect from that! It is just hurting you to look at it and is making you feel bad. Unsubscribe from whatever you are seeing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that?

This is a very privileged way of thinking. You clearly have not taken a financial hit. You clearly do not know anyone who has taken a significant financial hit. You clearly do not read up on all the starving people in third-world countries throughout the world who are dying now and for a long time to come, because you are sitting in your house and yelling for everyone to stay home. You are telling other people that there is a much bigger picture when you yourself are not seeing the actual big picture. Our reaction to the virus can cause the collapse of our entire society. You just don't understand that because it is not affecting you.

Not that poster but SHUT UP.

[Anonymous]

We opted out of preschool - little kids arent designed to be on conference calls! They learn by interaction..

[Anonymous]

This. My kid's Christian preschool is insane too. Scavenger hunts documented with books with spaces to insert pics, letter finds, a list of activities to do, worksheets, chapel and circle time videos, books to read, and projects. On the weekly call, you BETTER have your shit ready or the teacher shames you and you get the worst parent award. And, if that were not enough, you have a picture gallery and it is a show off gallery. You naturally feel terrible if your kid is not in it. SO much pressure. But, I do it because I do not want to be the crap parent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This. My kid's Christian preschool is insane too. Scavenger hunts documented with books with spaces to insert pics, letter finds, a list of activities to do, worksheets, chapel and circle time videos, books to read, and projects. On the weekly call, you BETTER have your shit ready or the teacher shames you and you get the worst parent award. And, if that were not enough, you have a picture gallery and it is a show off gallery. You naturally feel terrible if your kid is not in it. SO much pressure. But, I do it because I do not want to be the crap parent.

Wow. Teachers like that are on a power trip. Stop buying into the shaming, then it will lose its power over you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have 3 kids - 1 in preschool and 2 in elementary. It is hard enough getting these older kids to get to their live classrooms and do their assignments. Our preschool doesn’t want to return our tuition so they also have live instruction and assignments and activities. It is such a pain to do. There are parents where their preschool child is their only child or they have an infant and a preschool child. They do all these elaborate art projects and activities. I feel like absolute crap. I’m on the brink of a nervous break.

I need the world to open back up. I cannot handle being stuck at home. I will take the risk of getting coronavirus.

"I will take the risk of getting coronavirus."

That's the problematic thinking. If you really could risk only yourself, fine. But if you get infected you can still infect others even if you have no symptoms. So you're OK with infecting your family, with your infected but asymptomatic kids infecting teachers and classmates, with you and your spouse infecting total strangers as you go back to stores and kids' activities and back to school events. If you're about to argue that you will avoid infection and practice distancing etc.--really? If you can't deal with being at home, are you truly going to maintain mask and glove and distancing protocols for months to come?

This is why we will have a second wave of infections. Because of the "I can't stand being home" people and the "I can't take dealing with homeschooling plus job" people. We get that you are frazzled and overwhelmed. Why do you not get that there is a much bigger picture beyond the walls of your house? Take control of what's inside your home. Drop the preschooling and ramp back the elementary to whatever works -- plenty of parents on these threads have done just that. But please don't think that it's OK to say "I will take the risk of getting the virus" and that you are only risking yourself. You aren't. Can you see past your own cabin fever to understand that?

This is a very privileged way of thinking. You clearly have not taken a financial hit. You clearly do not know anyone who has taken a significant financial hit. You clearly do not read up on all the starving people in third-world countries throughout the world who are dying now and for a long time to come, because you are sitting in your house and yelling for everyone to stay home. You are telling other people that there is a much bigger picture when you yourself are not seeing the actual big picture. Our reaction to the virus can cause the collapse of our entire society. You just don't understand that because it is not affecting you.

NP, but we have taken a large financial hit. We also know people who have taken large financial hits. However, it sounds like you are thinking that if we reopen that somehow the economy will go back to being fine and only a few people will get sick. So let’s say restaurants are reopened for inside dining. Ok, that means they may be able to start making more money again. But then the diners start getting sick. And the servers start getting sick. And the other staff starts getting sick. So then the restaurant has to close and more people are flooding the hospitals. You need to really think through your plan now. You are being short-sighted in thinking that the economy would go back to normal if we just let it. That isn’t the way it would work.