Y'all, it has really just been one of those days. From beginning to now, it has been a hair pulling, skin crawling, eye scratching, crying, screaming, awful kind of day.
The girls home schooling may not be the best idea afterall. I did it because I am afraid of Clara going to middle school and learning things she doesn't need to be learning right now and because of Mary's health. But I am seriously second guessing my choices.
All summer I talked to them and did my best to prepare them for homeschool and what their responsibilities would be. Ie..school work, talking to their teachers when they need to, webinars, testing, getting up and doing the work without a fight, no arguing or talking back at all but especially about doing their work, etc...
So far it has been all of that. They don't want to get up. They don't want to do their work the way they are supposed to be doing it. They think because it's Mommy, they can slack off and talk back. Clara has 6 weeks until I can take her little butt to middle school, she's going back. I cannot deal with this attitude and her failing 6th grade because she doesn't want to participate.
Mary does her work when I'm not looking and fails to bring me in on it, ever. So I am not being told when she needs help or if she has a project due, etc. But she doesn't want to do it how she's supposed to be either. She wants to do it when she wants and how much she wants.
They are confused. They are defiant. They are going back to public school.
One thing I won't do, is allow them to fall behind or think that they can slack off from school. I thought they were mature enough to handle this, I was wrong.
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