Comments on: How Do You Homeschool Multiple Children?

By: carrie

carrie — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:12:34 +0000

I understand the challenges you are facing, in part. Although I don’t have a child with special needs (you mentioned bipolar) so I can’t comment on that.

I do know that kids go through phases – at any time a couple of mine are in an eager to learn, self motivated phase, and another two are in a “lazy” unmotivated phase. I hate to use that word lazy because the same kid who isn’t interested in “school” will work for hours on some project that they are interested in! Then, to confuse me they all flip every once in awhile. LOL

Try to ride it out, I understand that we want our kids to excel but they are learning all the time, even when they don’t do a lot of “schoolwork”. Can you interest them in more activities like field trips, musical instruments, gardening, or even something like LEGO? Try not to worry. Veteran moms tell me they worried too much about the wrong things when they had younger kids.

Reading books about unschooling helps me. My heart lies in unschooling, although I’m not a full unschooler. But I trust that (with the exception of math), kids will do fine if they follow their interests.

I would suggest you find a local homeschool group and befriend a mom you feel comfortable with and see what advice or wisdom she has

I can also post your question as a blog post and invite comments if you wish.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:30:28 +0000

I in need of some help, we have been homeschooling for 2 years, we are also a blended family so we have many that are of different ages and one that is bipolar.
The ages are from 14, 11, 10, 8, 9, 4, 11weeks.
At this time we are doing the Robinson Curriculum. It’s a lot of reading but I’m not sure that it’s enough for them. They don’t seemed challenged enough. Specially in there Bible and Math, and reading when they are suppose to. Ive tried scheduling but that dosent seem to work well for us, I want to do more hands on and have them work on there own but I can’t seem to get them to do that. I need someone to help me, mentor me or something. I am about to give up and put half of the back into school and I don’t want them to go back to public schools. Can anyone be a friend and help me out?

Thank you

By: Bhavana

Bhavana — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:49:35 +0000

Hello,
Thank you for writing this supportive article. I know I have gone through this myself and at times have found myself baffled with choices. I liked you saying that if it doesn’t work one day due to family emergency, don’t beat yourself up! “don’t set yourself up for failure with a rigid schedule.”
I have read to one kid, while nursing another,held one in the sling, while helping another to roll bread,etc,etc
Reading this relaxed my brain, as today I felt very overwhelmed.
Do you mind if I add your blog among one of my favorite on my page?
Regards
Bhavana Kansal

By: Natalie Akpele

Natalie Akpele — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:16:02 +0000

Thank you so much for this article! I have printed it out to review in the future! This is exactly what I needed!