Homeschooling, in my inexperienced opinion, has many moments.
Those Moments include moments where a child picks up something new, interesting, not know it's value and uses it as a toy. Quite impossible to lay all valuable things on the floor and teach each child not to touch it, or how to handle it.
Okay, so today, TODAY, just a few moments ago was my 'Jo' moment... little 'A'my didn't burn my precious story diary, but scribbled upon my recipe notebook. Hours of painstaking copying... for the kitchen was neatly, fascinatingly, intensely scribbled upon. Now I can't make out what happens first on one page, and how much of what goes on another page.
Those times when 'Mother' is hurrying about heating water in one corner, washing dishes in another corner and baking desert in yet another corner, the little 'Child' decides to leave the world of toy trains, doll houses, tracks, dialogues, soliloquies, music and venture into 'Mother's' world. It's fascinating, intriguing, an all grown-up experience. There is no sound coming from their little corner, they are still, delighted and time ceases to matter. Those are the danger moments!!
I didn't know how to react looking at my red and pink notebook... I suppose he understood it was wrong, and started saying 'Sorry'.. oh how devastated I felt for a few minutes. But then Kitchen Books can be re-written in another few hours, in a notebook with a lock and key (no kidding!!) and little posts can be written, reliving the wretchedness of the Moment!
Those Moments include moments where a child picks up something new, interesting, not know it's value and uses it as a toy. Quite impossible to lay all valuable things on the floor and teach each child not to touch it, or how to handle it.
Okay, so today, TODAY, just a few moments ago was my 'Jo' moment... little 'A'my didn't burn my precious story diary, but scribbled upon my recipe notebook. Hours of painstaking copying... for the kitchen was neatly, fascinatingly, intensely scribbled upon. Now I can't make out what happens first on one page, and how much of what goes on another page.
Those times when 'Mother' is hurrying about heating water in one corner, washing dishes in another corner and baking desert in yet another corner, the little 'Child' decides to leave the world of toy trains, doll houses, tracks, dialogues, soliloquies, music and venture into 'Mother's' world. It's fascinating, intriguing, an all grown-up experience. There is no sound coming from their little corner, they are still, delighted and time ceases to matter. Those are the danger moments!!
I didn't know how to react looking at my red and pink notebook... I suppose he understood it was wrong, and started saying 'Sorry'.. oh how devastated I felt for a few minutes. But then Kitchen Books can be re-written in another few hours, in a notebook with a lock and key (no kidding!!) and little posts can be written, reliving the wretchedness of the Moment!
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