Aaargh!

What a frustrating day!  S was not in the mood!  I got frustrated!  He got frustrated! 

We had a big chat (another one!) and tonight S told me he is finding the work too hard.  So, I need to take that on board.  Tonight I was about to sit down to another night of prep when I realised that this is ridiculous really!  The whole point of whole schooling is to try to take the pressure off S not pile it onto the child!  My targets for each day are really MY targets for my pride and to know that he's doing something.  I think it is quite obvious he is learning.  We've done heaps.  But if he is playing up because it is too hard and stressing him out then that's useless!  He could be at school to have that going on!

So tomorrow I'm going to try very hard to loosen my control freak tendencies and see what S thinks we should do.  I'm going to keep our maths in as I've planned as we are learning to tell the time this week and I think he's doing really well.  I'd really like him not to lose the idea on this just now.  After maths though - it's all over to him!  We need to go to the supermarket to get some food so I'll maybe try and sneak some speech and language therapy into that visit and maybe he can write on a clock what time we get there and leave???  (Is that too contrived??)

Let's see what happens...