Fight or Flight

After the positivity of my last post the last week or so has been a real struggle! I have been totally distracted by things going on in life out with home school and have to admit that my mind simply isn't on the job! With a child like S this isn't a recipe for success! He needs direction, structure and routine. If I am not on the ball then he makes the most of that and disappears off quite happy to be escaping any sort of formal work. My resilience is very low just now to deal with any lack of co-operation and instead of fight my flight instinct is well and truly in operation just now. My house badly needs some attention, I have a list of chore building up and I have lost any motivation just now. Not so positive then!

I've decided therefore to chuck out the lesson plans for the remainder of the term and radically rethink what we will do. We are potentially going to adopt a tortoise so I'm thinking a wee project on tortoises could be in order. I think we might do 4 wee mini projects for the remainder of the term. It doesn't really sit right with me not to neatly finish off the workbooks that we could do but something needs to happen to kick start us both into action.

So - not a very inspiring blog today but this is the nitty gritty of home ed, in the midst of a busy family life. We are both longing for the holidays and a wee break and by the end of the summer I'm really hopeful that some of the distractions in my head might be a thing of the past and my fight instinct will be back!