help!happyhomeschooling not so happy

[my3sons]

Lesley -
God knew what He was doing when he blessed you with your precious daughter, and He knew what He was doing when He put it in your heart to homeschool her in a Godly manner. Many times in life I feel like Moses saying to the Lord, "but I can't do that...I am slow of speech, and no one will listen to me", only my reasons are different. God equipped Moses to lead all of the Israelites out of the desert when Moses was sure he'd muck it up, and God will enable us to homeschool our children to His glory - as long as we remember Him in it - to His glory too. Lesley - you are the right gal for this job. Keep up the good work, and know the rest of us wonder if we're out wandering around in the desert lost with all of this homeschooling/parenting business quite often too! But sometimes, like Moses, that may be when we do our best work!

In Christ,
Julie

[netpea]

I've found my kiddos balked much more at doing school when they didn't have much consistency from me. If they never knew in what order their day would go or when we would have school, then they would complain about being pulled away from their play to do school. They would also waste time negotiating the order to do things in. Once I got a consistent routine and schedule down, there was almost no more complaining, as everyone knew what was expected. Play became the reward for work, rather than something I was pulling them away from (at all different times) to do school. So, number one for fixing my kiddos' attitude is consistency.

This where alot of our family's attitude problems come up. I'm hoping to better at scheduling our day.

Another problem we have is lack of sleep. My almost 8yo will sneak out of bed and turn on his light and stay up reading if we don't keep an eye on him. No sleep = grumpy kid on his part.

Hate to stop his reading, but not past 9:30.