Schooling woes in 2015

Ugh. Stressed. I’m like 2-3 days from getting my period and I feel like when I’m around that time, everything stresses me out a little more than it should, probably lol

Miley is in a french immersion school. Half the day is in french, the other half english. Apparently shes having issues in the reading department. So they have her in Reading Recovery. She is given small short stories to read to help boost her confidence. Plus they are sent home for her to read with me, and one specific word to work on and a puzzle of some kind. This is over and above her 30 mins of scheduled home work a night.

From the moment I get home at 3:10 from picking her up from school, until 4:30 is spent working on homework and stuff. Thats a long day for a 6 year old. Maybe I am different but I do NOT believe in scheduled home work. I feel if they didn’t get their work done in class, then YES by all means, it must go home to be completed. But I do not like that on Monday, I get a folder with 4-5 days worth of work to be completed after school hours. Shes a child. She wants to run an play and live. Not sit there for yet another fucking hour and basically get turned off school totally.

I wish there was a way that they never got homework. But that would just make me seem like a lazy mom.

I’m so the opposite. Every second week is a folder of French homework. At the moment she struggling with English. So now we are tossing a second language in there. Great. And before you say that maybe I should have put her in a full english school, we don’t have one here. I spend the day trying to figure out the french work, translating and finding the right pronunciation so that I can help her the best. This way when shes done at school I can help her right away.

Don’t forget now, this is during my already insanely busy day lol. I realize a lot of moms work 9-5 and I’m not sure how they would have the time to do all of this with their child. Plus have another little one running around.

This reading program shes in seems to be helping a lot with the english. I just think I may need a tutor for the french.

Who’d have thought that this would be my biggest concern someday in my life lol :)

Kristen <3