Back again. To continue my last post. Two years ago I realized that I needed help. I went to the Dr, he prescribed Zoloft and counseling. I have been taking the zoloft for about 2 years, and have been counseling with my pastor off and on during that time.
I am so thankful that my kids are curious and love to learn what they want, because if they only learned what I actually taught them, they would not know very much. I have provided learning opportunities, such as our county Envirothon competition and our local Junior Achievement's BizTown program when offered. But as to me actually sitting with them and teaching, not so much.
Home education in itself is a journey of discovery, discovering what works, what doesn't, what kid it works with and what kid it doesn't. Each child is different and each program may work for one, but not the other.
Girlie hates math, but if she doesn't realize she is doing math, she is good at it. If I just tell her to do math, she freezes up and says she can't do it, but if I have them doing a recipe or working in a "student" checkbook, then she does OK. She still needs some practice in the basics of math, and I don't believe she will do anything that requires higher math, but I am hope full that she will be able to keep a budget and hopefully run the riding stable, horse rescue, boarding stable that she plans to run when she grows up. She loves, make that lives horses. As part of her schooling for next year she needs to make a business plan for what she wants to do. Not to discourage her, but to have her plan ahead so she can reach her goals. She has already picked out an Equine College to go to after high school graduation.
Red currently loves trains in any shape or form and his current goal in life is anything that doesn't require a college degree. We will see what happens as he gets older. He is very good in all his subjects and probably knows things that I don't even realize. I think he has a photographic memory. He is a loving, caring, great little boy who lives to torment his siblings.
Babes plans to be a big rig driver when he grows up. Or a Monster truck driver. He isn't sure which. He is a great guy, very smart, but has some reading difficulties. He and Red both have some speech issues which need attention. As the youngest he does everything he can to keep up with the older two and likes that he is doing the same math work as Girlie.
Well, time to get off and go do some house work. It is amazing to me how things pile up when we aren't paying attention.
Way to go you figured it out. I was on Zoloft for while back in 2000. It didn't turn out to be the best medicine for me, but we're all different. I was just telling someone the other day. I tried the natural route; it didn't work for me. If it had that would have been great, but it just didn't cut it. We have to be healthy in order to take care of families.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the note. Zoloft seems to be working for me so far. I hope that this can help someone. I believe it will help me even if no one else ever reads it.
DeleteI am so glad you're blogging through this journey. I homeschool my daughter, who is also 12, and I have bipolar disorder. I too have come to believe (after a long struggle) that it is as much a chemical problem as diabetes, and I need the help of a low-dose medication to function well each day, but with it, I do SO much better.
ReplyDeleteI do have to add - my daughter sounds just like yours, no "math" if she knows it's math, and she wants to be a pet groomer or a stable owner when she grows up. :)
Thanks for the note. I think our daughters would have a blast if they ever got together. I will do my best to keep this blog up, but as you know working with a mental disorder is not the easiest and the days when I need to do it the most are the days when I feel the least like doing it. I hope that my journey helps make yours easier even if it is just knowing that someone out there is dealing with the same type of thing.
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