As a Home Schooler you worry about so many things....
Am I teaching my boys all they need to know?
Am I overloading them with the things I think they need to know PLUS the things that they need to know to pass the State Exams?
Am I pushing them to hard or to little?
Am I smothering them by us being together 24/7?
Am I stealing away a certain part of their independence by us always being together? (this one is hard for me to believe as I have the two most outgoing eight year olds I know).
There is one thing I know that is harder for my kids to do then others their age, and that is following the lead or listening as well to other Adults as they are to us as they truly are very used to taking their cues from me or Ron.
This morning when the news broke about the Shooting at the Elementary School in Connecticut I was sitting at my Computer paying bills. I read the first news reports and looked up at my boys, who were sitting at their school desks writing quietly in their school books just three feet away from me, with this huge sense of pain for the families and this sense of how lucky I am to be with my boys almost most of their times. Yes, to others our life might be crazy and you can say there is no way to protect them from everything BUT here is where I take my comfort now ... They are so little and while yes they need independence they also need protection in this very twisted world. You can hardly know anymore who one can trust or how stable someone's mind is and right now I am comforted that I am the one person that stands guard over my boys almost all the time, because to hurt them one would have to take me down first and that I know will not be an easy task to accomplish.
Huge heartbreak today in my family for the families that are suffering the most gruesome pain one can imagine in my mind: Loosing your child!
So I know all of us with kids will hug them a lot tighter again tonight and just what needs to happen to stop all this insanity is beyond me.
Hugs,
R A C A
Am I teaching my boys all they need to know?
Am I overloading them with the things I think they need to know PLUS the things that they need to know to pass the State Exams?
Am I pushing them to hard or to little?
Am I smothering them by us being together 24/7?
Am I stealing away a certain part of their independence by us always being together? (this one is hard for me to believe as I have the two most outgoing eight year olds I know).
There is one thing I know that is harder for my kids to do then others their age, and that is following the lead or listening as well to other Adults as they are to us as they truly are very used to taking their cues from me or Ron.
This morning when the news broke about the Shooting at the Elementary School in Connecticut I was sitting at my Computer paying bills. I read the first news reports and looked up at my boys, who were sitting at their school desks writing quietly in their school books just three feet away from me, with this huge sense of pain for the families and this sense of how lucky I am to be with my boys almost most of their times. Yes, to others our life might be crazy and you can say there is no way to protect them from everything BUT here is where I take my comfort now ... They are so little and while yes they need independence they also need protection in this very twisted world. You can hardly know anymore who one can trust or how stable someone's mind is and right now I am comforted that I am the one person that stands guard over my boys almost all the time, because to hurt them one would have to take me down first and that I know will not be an easy task to accomplish.
Huge heartbreak today in my family for the families that are suffering the most gruesome pain one can imagine in my mind: Loosing your child!
So I know all of us with kids will hug them a lot tighter again tonight and just what needs to happen to stop all this insanity is beyond me.
Hugs,
R A C A
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