From day one THE mother has shown next to no interest in the lil one's education... not even asking for a report card!! SO when this lock down happened Sir Steve told her that we would do the homeschooling...... she actually said 'good'. BUT when they added french to the home learning curriculum and because I am not fluent ... we asked mother to take over the french work (mother apparently speaks fluent french).
Know how she does the french work???? she sits across the room from the lil one spells out each word for her to write down and never practices the oral. THAT'S her idea of doing french!
English homeschooling has been going along well.......... until this week. This week the teacher added multiplication....... I have NO idea how to teach multiplication... and the documents we have to work from (we being parents) makes very little sense even to this Kindergarten teacher!! BUT we keep slogging away at it...
multiplication is adding the same number together... 3+3+3+3+3 = 15 OR 3x5 = 15.
We worked for over an hour the other morning doing all that adding and my feeling desperate cause the lil one really wasn't understanding WHY she was adding all those numbers... and GAH... it was hard... really hard!! We have been putting in 3 hours every morning on math and science and journal writing...... 3 F**king hours!!! Are we making any headway in multiplication - I honestly don't know........ Will I give up? no bloody way!
Then yesterday THE mother uploaded this aggravating video entitled I am NOT a teacher I AM the parent! I lost it.... totally lost it! It felt like she sees me as the hired help........ only she hasn't offered to pay me....... she hasn't even thanked me for all I am doing to help HER child!!!!
My belief is - if it is your child you do whatever it takes for your child..... even teaching them. Do NOT tell me that is NOT your job -- F**K how did your child learn to feed themselves ... to go pee on a toilet.... to dress themselves?? HUH??? if you didn't teach them how did they learn it???!!!
OH WAIT
YOU - THE mother - didn't teach the lil one those things!!! she figured it out herself -- or her grandmother taught her .. or her father.... YOU THE mother where were you?? sitting on the sofa playing on your computer OR doing cross stitch. AND that is where you are now!!!!
I am so fed up with the hypocrisy !!! I am so fed up with the helpless feeling .. I am SO fed up with THE mother being in MY life!
Rant over..............
