With all of my recent thoughts on deschooling, I backed off of the connection making for a while. With the advice of Pam Larrichia after I posted a comment on her blog, I’m just going to play. this comes pretty easy to me as my kids don’t like to play by themselves! needless to say of course other things such as the house become neglected, but in the years to come that will be long forgotten!
In the past few days however, my patience has been a little short and I have been far from the unschooling, gentle parent I want to be. I dug a little deeper to analyse why: I want everything to be perfect, from the start. I read all of these blogs and people seem to have this unschooling thing down. Then I spot bookwork, or scheduled bedtimes, etc and feel cheated by their claims. Then I start thinking about Pinterest and I’m once more overwhelmed, and I don’t even have to report to an authority! Once I pinpointed this, I felt a little relief, remembered this is not a competition, recognised my extensive experiences in education and moved on.
There’s also been the issues with finances and working this year which has interfered. I think we’ve found a bit of stability for now though.
So it’s back to journaling what we do, appreciating who my kids are and just living.