SparklyUnicorn Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 My school hater is having his meltdown...like clockwork. Because ya know...back to school. I told him to go take a warm bath and calm the heck down. *sigh* Give me strength... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenaj Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 My 8yodd is full of tears this morning. I think she's half mad because her 10yo brother is sick with the stomach flu. She was sick last week so didn't miss school. Life isn't fair. Gonna be a long day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommyoffive Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Sending a hug to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 (hugs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 I'll trade you. I'll take the cranky school hater, and you can have six 4-9yos having a rock-and-roll/piano hide and seek army battle in my house right now. :willy_nilly: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freesia Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Happening here, too. So predictable. Suggesting calming strategies didn't work here. I finally told him to get it together and be pleasant or he'd o school in his room with no screen time today. Suddenly he used the calming strategies. Sigh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peaceseeker Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Ugh...you guys are making me dread next week. After break battles are no fun! It has calmed down a lot around here the last year or two after some threats to stop home schooling. But I can still tell everyone hates heading back to school due to the heavy sighs and body language lol...it hurts my feelings after all those hours of researching resources! They know mom is on the edge and would be fine with sending them off to public school for high school. They decided they wanted to keep homeschooling so they know better than to grumble out loud now as I have told them I am pretty burnt out and only willing to homeschool cooperative teenagers. At the younger ages I just dealt with it as I was firmly committed to homeschooling those years. But at these ages? I don't have the energy for it anymore. They have to go to school but I don't have to be the one to do it and listen to the negativity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: to all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
displace Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) Hugs. I’m too disorganized to start this week. We’ve been off a loooong time. Maybe I’ll semi start this week with DS reading to younger DD out loud, and me reading BA out loud. Sigh. ETA - or maybe a day or two of zones of regulation... Edited January 2, 2018 by displace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 My school hater is having his meltdown...like clockwork. Because ya know...back to school. I told him to go take a warm bath and calm the heck down. *sigh* Give me strength... Love it! I should do that more often myself. Hope you have someone to support you through these tough times. It made me feel so great when my ds's violin teacher recommended to my son that he learn to say, "Yes, mom." and to simply stop arguing about putting in the work. My ds is 13 and apparently this is a common phase for this age. I don't recall my older 2 going through this, but I may have been distracted by younger kids at the time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieZ Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Returning from breaks is *the very worst*. (((hugs))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ondreeuh Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Not only did we just start up after 10 days off, but I increased my sophomore's workload. Poor kid. I told him it will go faster as he gets into the groove again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicagoshannon Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 It wasn't too rough here. BUT math did take forever, and it was just addition review (started MM 4 today). DD hasn't done writing yet, though so there will probably be some tears when she gets to that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyhwkmama Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 On 1/2/2018 at 8:30 PM, king said: deleted reported links Reported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 My DS12 is still doing his chinese homework at 7:30pm because he is taking his own sweet time. He did read his assigned socratic discussion class novel in the late morning. His outsourced class starts back this Saturday from winter break. Next week would have to be full steam ahead for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Y'all are making me glad we aren't starting back till next week, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 Ugh, me too. I tried to show ds how to mark his word find and he flipped his lid. He wouldn't just not do it, either - he had to do it, he couldn't do it. We made it a short day though and went ice skating. The lakes are all frozen like glass so the kids skated all over and I pushed the littles in a stroller. There were only a few other people out and the temp is up to 0 which is very nice. Ds just learned to skate this year and he's been desperate to go again. It's supposed to storm tomorrow so that may be the end of bare ice on the lakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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