The Voice of the Curved Ball!

I had made the decision...... Codey-Reece would be homeschooled for ONE YEAR (and one year only!).

It's funny how we can plan the road ahead, and then in comes a curved ball from no where and THINGS CHANGE!

Well the curved ball came in the form of my ten year old son, Jamie. "Mom PLEASE, I want to be homeschooled! Codey has so much fun and he has NO HOMEWORK!"....... A-Ha! He was trying to get out of homeswork. So I ignored the voice of the curve ball! This plea only got louder as the year progressed, till I realised this curved ball was not going away and needed to be adressed, before it slammed into my head!

Why would we want to move Jamie? He has attended a Private Christian School for 7 years and has been extremely happy there! He received the Maths and Literacy award last year and he enjoys all aspects of the school....Except homework, it seems!

Then Boyd (my hubby) and I were invited to a birthday party that consisted of mainly homeschooled kids. Their ages ranged from 8 to 15. Well, these kids just blew us away! They were mature and held intelligent conversations not only with each other, but with the adults too! Their self esteem was phenominal, they oosed confidence and they actually LIKED their parents and the company of other adults!

We left the party.....our minds made up....Jamie would be homeschooled!

Codey-Reece is extremely happy that from Jan 2006 Jamie will be joining us at 'FunSchool'

And.................Jamie is exstatic that the end of the year heralds the end of homework!

So, to summerise..........plans change ......curved balls aren't neccessarily a bad thing and HOMEWORK SUCKS!

Be blessed!

Fiffi