Doldrums
Enter that phase in January where the kids seem to have forgotten everything they’ve learned and rather than all the interesting things they’re doing all that runs through your mind are the myriad ways they are behind their other, more evenly educated, peers. Suddenly all I am noticing is that Alex can’t even spell the word “pour” and Jordan mis-added 6+6. And Aubrey isn’t even keeping up in the few “real” classes she signed up to take and has absolutely no motivation to get an “A”. (Of course, if she were obsessed with getting “A”’s I’d be all concerned about that too….) Alex seems to have completely forgotten long division–a topic we spent just enough time on for him to get the concept and memorize the algorithm. And I’m cranky and they are cranky and there isn’t enough sun to go around and we’re all coming down off the sugar high of December.
Yes, I CAN make it through this phase without tossing their scrawny little hineys on the next passing school bus. I think I can I think I can I think I can.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:59 am
[...] Posted on January 16, 2009 by momofmonkeys One of my favorite bloggy people Lara, was talking about the mid-winter doldrums — she’s getting through this difficult period without succumbing to the temptation to [...]