Frustration Tolerance

Today was an okay homeschooling day for my son and I, though my frustration tolerance was low.... very low.  I'm a bit under the weather from allergies, feeling prickly about my lack of time to do anything to completion and angry that my day wasn't progressing as I had hoped.  None of this was my kindergartener's fault, however, and I tried to remind myself of this while we did our work this morning.  We started out with our language arts basics - journal, handwriting and grammar text.  We went in to read, Koda to me and me to him, but again, I was prickly and his constant ooching and scooching all over made me grumpy.  Math was an easy lesson and we completed this before lunch.  After our break, which I felt was no break at all since I didn't get to put my bottom in a chair for more than 2 minutes at a time, we started a new science unit on Forces and Motion.  My son really likes that kind of thing, but he had to demonstrate pushing with his open bottle of water....all over the table and books.  I tried not to shout.  I wasn't terribly successful.  We worked on a fun demo at the computer and then rounded out our seatwork with some mapping for Australia.  Arena football practice is later tonight.  So we are done.  Literally, I am DONE.  I don't want to be bothered and luckily he has a buddy over for a playdate and I am left to myself for awhile to work at my job and be on the computer for my pleasure for a few minutes.  Homeschooling days are not always the way we wish they were.  Today was far from my best, but I don't think it was a complete washout either.  We got our work done.  He had fun with forces and energy and neither of us is missing pieces or otherwise out of sorts.  Some days are like this.  On to the next.

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