This question/statement, "I don't know how you do it!" comes from The Stone Age Techie. Thanks for the memory jog, Karen! Her answer was great too:
"I don't know how I fought with him for hours each night to finish his (first grade!) homework, or how I hauled him out of bed, shoveled food down his gullet, and got him out the door each day for school... we are all so much happier without that in our lives anymore!"Since I never experienced the joy of waking up my children before 8:00, I usually give a somewhat simpler response to this question.
The partner statement for "I don't know how you do it!" is usually "I could never do that!" I hear that a lot. I never did figure out a clever response that one. Any takers?
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have a hard time with the people who tell me that they just don't have the patience to teach their kids. I'm not a terribly patient person either. We do what we do because it feels right for our family. All the challenges can be overcome if what we're doing is something that feels absolutely right.
I'll be interested in hearing responses to this - I usually just shrug and say "it works for us"..
Genghis Khan... =)
I felt like I was Genghis Khan back in the day of dragging a sleepy child on the drop off kids to school rounds and as I'd have to wake him to eat his McDonalds before it was his turn...
Nope...I don't miss those days at ALL! And still can't figure out how we ever managed. Let me tell ya, it took more skill in figuring out how those rounds would get accomplished then homeschooling has taken since.
And for anyone wondering WHY, lets just leave it at it took me six hours a day just in driving, to get all three kids to their schools on time. Add on eight hours of midnight employment... Yeah, I could have been called a miracle worker every morning...
No place I'd ever want to return to..nor wish on anybody else.
HOMESCHOOLING ROCKS!!!
My usual answer, "I don't know either. Somehow it works."
I've had kids in public school and in home school. I've been on both sides of the fence but THIS IS EASIER!
Well, what I want to answer to the I could never do that is "Really, you don't look that dumb." But I don't, I say something nice.
Oh that is so me! Emily starts asking about the body in the car, I remember what I know and we go home to look at what I forgot. lol
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