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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homeschoolers -- what I've never understood is how you get the school part done in the throws of the parent/child power struggles?  Don't all kids want to be lazy?  Even if you are a SAH parent and have all the time to devote to a child, how do you get them to do things that they consider "work" without constantly nagging them?  While I think I could teach my children a lot (especially if I followed a commercial homeschool program), it would be a nightmare in terms of our relationship.

Our "summer learning" workbook stuff is evidence enough for me that homeschooling wouldn't work.

How do you homeschoolers get the work done everyday?  [/quote]

I can totally answer this. Firstly, no. Not all kids want to be lazy, but also, their version of lazy is different than another child's version of lazy. For example, right now my 4th and 5th graders are doing a whole lesson on astronomy. They each had to write out the definitions to a slew of words today. One took the dog and a pillow and camped out in the hammock for an hour to do it. The other one sprawled out on the living room floor and listened to music while doing it. In the middle of her work she stopped to hop on her bike to take some mail to the post office for me.

Each night I review the day's work and list out for each kid what they need to accomplish for the next two days. I write out two days in a row so they can have space to go slowly or quickly depending on their mood or other things going on. Each morning they check their list as to what they have to accomplish. The awesomeness of homeschooling is that there are no rules as to HOW I go about teaching. So for example, when we were doing Map Skills and one DD wasn't getting it, I was able to try three different ways of teaching until we found a way for her to understand.

In terms of the nagging, we established some ground rules at the beginning, one of which is that if they want to do something non-academic before 1pm they have to let me know when they'll be meeting their two-day goal. So when they come to say "Can I go ice skating and then to Julia's house?" they don't stop talking until they've included that they'll do their math lesson at night instead of watching Junior Master Chef or whatever. [/quote]

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