The Ups and Downs of Unschooling

Raising independent kids bites me in the butt. Today started out ugly. I wanted to “do math”; kids had other plans. There were tears from two of them. Daddy intervened. But then I have to sit back and remember the ugly was only combined one hour. The rest of the day was Clue and Azul and Risk amongst themselves. Lemon meringue pie skills from scratch. Math and reading on their own. Song writing. Handwriting. Coloring. Outside play. Sooo much self-led learning. Tomorrow, math will be done again. Maybe only one kid will cry; it won’t be me. Can’t let the 5% stink ruin the other 95% goodness. This year… day one and I’m already done. Solidarity mamas! 😊