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[quote=Anonymous]We have a homeschool pod with my DH's sister and her family.  Between us there have 6 kids.   One of my kids has severe medical needs and needs constant supervision and support, so DH is a SAH parent, but he's not really available to homeschool.  So, the idea is that my SIL and BIL will bring their kids to our house, which is bigger and has a nice yard, and is wheelchair accessible for our child.  They'll do a couple of hours of homeschooling in the morning with all 5 kids, and then go back to their house to home, and start their virtual work day.  I'll do the opposite, scheduling my day so I finish early, and do a couple hours with them after work.  For the time in between, we're paying a grandparent and a college age cousin to provide supervision, but no formal schooling.  There might be some art or cooking projects if the caregivers want, but mostly the kids will have time to play indoors or out.

Or at least that's what I thought we had agreed upon.  We homeschooled our kids last year, and found that for elementary school aged kids 3 or so hours of academics a day was plenty for them to move through a year's curriculum.

But with the start of the school year, my SIL and BIL seem anxious that it's not enough.  They keep wanting to add things to that middle part of the day.  They think all the kids should have music lessons and daily practice, and online Spanish, and they'd like to buy formal art curriculum for my niece to do with the kids, and think that maybe we can leave some math worksheets and spelling workbooks.

In my opinion it's too much.  I think that 3 hours of academics, balanced with some indoor and outdoor play is a nice day for the kids, and that they'll learn plenty.  I also don't really think that an option where my kids do less, and theirs do more, is fair to the grandparent and niece, because I think that enforcing work for some kids while their cousins are playing with legos close by is going to be easy.

I'd love other homeschooling parents thoughts on how much is too much.  The kids in question are 6 - 10.  [/quote]

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