I had three little boys who never listened. I did my best. They were born in 1992, 1993, and 1995. They are amazing men. I am proud to be their mother.
My son is 10. We homeschool from 8:30-12. When I pulled him out of public school, he was at the beginning of third grade. He was reading at the beginning of Kindergarten level. He was diagnosed with dyslexia/ ADHD with an I.Q. of 120. I decided to not medicate him. We have taught him to manage his hyperactivity. He volunteers at a local food pantry two days each week. He is an amazing kid.
I homeschool my 10 yr old son. My teenage girls are in public school. We start our day at 8:30. I teach spelling/reading for an hour. My mom arrives at 9:30 and stays until 12:00. She teaches all other subjects. He has a 10 min. coffee break at around 10:30. Two days each week, he volunteers at a local food pantry for an hour.
We buy properties that we can rent to our kids for a lot less than they would pay somewhere else, and they live there until they are able to get their own places.
For my mother-in-law, we added a wheelchair ramp to our front porch, a ramp inside the house from her room to the kitchen (there was a step down there), and a handicap-accessible shower in the bathroom. We installed a higher toilet, and added rails on the walls next to the toilet. The shower was equipped with a sprayer, and there was a hand rail on the wall next to the shower.