Spring Fever

It is that time of year for homeschoolers....spring fever. Not just the wiggly, giggly I cannot stand to be inside another second I just have to be outside fever. It is the time to evaluate, to determine what works and what need tweeking (or is it tweaking?) Curriculum fever, the endless searching, researching, combing message boards ...looking for that perfect curriculum. Worrying that we didn't get xyz done this year, we are behind in math, or writing, or spelling or...EVERYTHING!!!


I have been there, I have spent hours, days, years in search of the perfect curriculum. I spent so much time every spring and summer researching that I lost something. I lost sight of the teaching. I filled my bookshelves with the latest, greatest, most wonderful and forgot that one day I would have to get myself up from the computer chair and actually teach my children this stuff. Researching became a passion, but getting the work done was secondary.


One day I realized that if I put some of my computer time into my children in teaching them and less on researching maybe the curriculum wouldn't matter so much. My focus changed, and so did our homeschool.