I'm still trying to find "the time" that I enjoy writing the most. I go in cycles, it seems. I should attempt to write when it excites me the most, I guess. That seems to appear somewhere around 11am. Well, that's horrid timing. I homeschool my children and that's usually when I'm working with them. I can't exactly declare vacation for an entire month just so I can write when I want to. I can't do school later in the day either. It hits a certain time and BOOM! The kids explode and there's no teaching them anything. I definitely can't play start and stop with my book either. If I'm in my groove, I don't want to waste that to stop and discuss simple subjects and simple predicates and direct objects.

You know... speaking of those three things, what the heck are they?! LOL I have to constantly go back in my son's book and look it back up again. Goodness knows I didn't care in school. I mean, I never needed to know what they were to put together a coherent sentence. And we won't even go into diagramming sentences. If my son is supposed to be taught those within this program, I'm going to tell his "teacher" No.

Okay, that's another irritation. I'm technically not his teacher. I'm called a "learning coach." Right. In my opinion, the so-called "teacher" is the Learning Coach. She coaches us, the real teachers, on how to help teach our children. LOL Think I should tell her that? It would amuse me. To tell you the truth, I hate this program he's in. I went through the public school district this year to do the K12 program. Oh, my gosh! The pressure to get all of these things done every single day is enormous! Then there's the constant tests every single week to make sure they'll pass the dumb state test.

Want to know a secret? Last year, we didn't get all the way through our 3rd grade curriculum. As a matter of fact, we barely touched it. Those state tests are SO scary. LMAO Yeah, right. He passed the Texas state 3rd grade test just fine. LMAO Oh, geez. All that pressure they put on kids to pass them is SO stupid. The pressure is what's causing the kids to do poorly. I wonder when they'll figure that out? Probably never. As the scores decrease, they'll put on more pressure until they start to fail. I doubt they'll figure it out then, either. So, my philosophy is to ignore them. We do the minimum prep work that we're required to do and call it good. By the way, my son is starting to pass the weekly tests with flying colors. They're no big deal. You should teach your children the same thing.

By the way, if you're in the state of Texas, did you know that your child's teacher gets a raise if her entire class does well on the state test? Now you know why they push them so hard.

ANYWAY!! Long ramble, irritations long buried, etc. Sorry about that. So, I guess I'll meander off now and play some more lame Facebook games. It's easier to break from those than anything else when I'm attempting to instruct my son.