Homeschooling - Tumblr Posts
For anyone who needs to hear it: homeschooling is a good option.
I was vehemently against starting homeschooling for so long when I was first ill because I just wanted to be like everyone else and do things like everyone else.
Eventually I became so ill that I had to join a medical needs teaching programme and they started teaching me at home a few days a week.
I got a few weeks into it and realised I was the best thing ever. I couldn't cope being in a school but one to one lessons adjusted to my needs meant I could start getting one hundred percent attendance most weeks for the first time in two and a half years.
It helped so much with my struggles around school as an audhd person as well!
My contact with my friends didn't change. I actually started seeing them more because I wasn't wasting my spoons by trying to fit in!
Obviously it won't work for everyone but it's not as scary as it can seem and it's always worth looking into things that can help you.
how do people even make friends?
(i’ve isolated myself from society, why do i expect people to just knock on my door and ask me to be their friend???)
Just finished Friday poetry class with my two eldest. One of the best things about being a home educator is getting to pass on one's enthusiasms to one's children. We finished Crossing The Bar today and moved to an obscure but lovely poem by John Farrar called:
SONG FOR A FORGOTTEN SHRINE TO PAN COME to me, Pan, with your wind-wild laughter, Where have you hidden your golden reed? Pipe me a torrent of tune-caught madness, Come to me, Pan, in my lonely need. Where are the white-footed youths and the maidens, Garlanded, rosy-lipped, lyric with spring? They tossed me poppies, tall lilies and roses And now but the winds their soft blown petals bring. Where are the fauns and the nymphs and the satyrs? Where are the voices that sang in the trees? Beauty has fled like a wind-startled nestling, Beauty, O Pan, and your sweet melodies. Come to me! Come to me! God of mad music, Come to me, child of the whispering night. Bring to all silences, torrents of music, People all shadows with garlands of light.
Instead of 'child' I'd have put 'lord' in the last stanza. I would leave out 'blown' in the second stanza because 'winds' is a long syllable and 'blown' is also.
I've had to start doing homeschooling the last few years cuz of my health, and I didn't understand some of the slang my brother picked up from school. He meant to say it's because I've been M.I.A for the past three years, but I stead he said "You've been AFK for too long."
Lots more crude art nobody asked for! Lol that’s most of the loose felt drawings I did with my son this year during home-schooling because of the covid shutdown. That was challenging but definitely a rewarding time :)
Unexpected day of homeschooling last week, so we did one of our favorite activities - “timed” drawings. 10 minutes per picture, plus an extra bonus 5 to finish up if needed. The themes this time were “Happy, Funny, and Crazy.” Always lots of fun with this activity :)
Covid sucks, but one silver lining (for me at least) has been seeing all the little crafts people in my community starting putting outside during the period of forced homeschooling last year when schools shut down. Waste/pollution issues aside, I absolutely love walking around and seeing little painted rocks and other cute things tucked away in unexpected places. I saw this knitted heart today on my lunch walk, and thought it was adorable! Although I didn’t make it, it felt like something worthy of a quick pic and I wanted to share it in the hopes it makes you smile too :)
Ururrgrgugjjjhhhh
I’m 41% done with my last year of high school let’s fucking goooo