Starting anew
Sep. 9th, 2010 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckydipdaysIn an attempt to de google my life here I am :) Still haven't figured out how to bring my old blog over from blogger but I'll get there.
So this is me :) Living the single mama life with Ianto (who is 4.5) and Anouke (who is currently 21 months). Other supporting characters include the parentals (referred to as Mum and Dad), two siblings who I will henceforth refer to as Flying Auntie and Studying Auntie and various other friends and relatives, many of whom have already given themselves internet names so I don't have to think of them for myself...
The biggest thing to happen for us lately is that I have made the firm decision to homeschool the small people. There are many reasons for this which I will go into later. Mainly though it is because of my concern that Ianto will find his spirit crushed at school and I don't want that to happen. While his stubbornness and conviction that he is always right is tricky to deal with now I think that if I can support it appropriately it will be a positive thing - standing his ground against peer pressure as a teen and then forging his own way as an adult. I can see him going to school and getting it supressed and then having to try and rebuild it when he is a teen... Now to just get through this bit...
So in honour of that decision I am reading blogs, researching, reading some more and heading to the local steiner shop to get some supplies on the weekend while Flying Auntie entertains small people.
We spent a good portion of today at the local park with other homeschoolers, bemoaning the fact that because of school holidays 'our' parks are full of interlopers lol. Still holidays will be over soon and we can reclaim them. Ianto had great fun running around with a newcomer to our group who is the same age as him. This was the first time he had met a boy the same age as him and they had a fantastic time. Now sleeps have been had and it is probably time to be thinking about dinner but I can put that off for a bit longer surely?
So this is me :) Living the single mama life with Ianto (who is 4.5) and Anouke (who is currently 21 months). Other supporting characters include the parentals (referred to as Mum and Dad), two siblings who I will henceforth refer to as Flying Auntie and Studying Auntie and various other friends and relatives, many of whom have already given themselves internet names so I don't have to think of them for myself...
The biggest thing to happen for us lately is that I have made the firm decision to homeschool the small people. There are many reasons for this which I will go into later. Mainly though it is because of my concern that Ianto will find his spirit crushed at school and I don't want that to happen. While his stubbornness and conviction that he is always right is tricky to deal with now I think that if I can support it appropriately it will be a positive thing - standing his ground against peer pressure as a teen and then forging his own way as an adult. I can see him going to school and getting it supressed and then having to try and rebuild it when he is a teen... Now to just get through this bit...
So in honour of that decision I am reading blogs, researching, reading some more and heading to the local steiner shop to get some supplies on the weekend while Flying Auntie entertains small people.
We spent a good portion of today at the local park with other homeschoolers, bemoaning the fact that because of school holidays 'our' parks are full of interlopers lol. Still holidays will be over soon and we can reclaim them. Ianto had great fun running around with a newcomer to our group who is the same age as him. This was the first time he had met a boy the same age as him and they had a fantastic time. Now sleeps have been had and it is probably time to be thinking about dinner but I can put that off for a bit longer surely?
