My daughter went through a period of time where she kept insisting that she'd be better off going to a local school. I finally gave in one day and went down the street and enrolled her. She was there for 3 days and begged to come back home. She told me later that she really thought school would be like what she saw on the Disney channel, but it wasn't like that at all.
Sometimes I have to remind myself of that too. I have to stop and get a reality check and ask if my son or daughter was in a traditional school, what would their day be like, and what would our night be like if they were doing homework or crying for hours because they had a bad day at school.
It's so easy to think that there has to be something easier...especially when you are having a bad day. When I first started schooling the kids in a virtual school, I put a little note on my computer which simply said "It's not an option". It reminded me that this was what we needed, and I had to find ways to make it work.
Have you ever had to do a “reality check” and remind yourself why you made the virtual school decision to begin with?
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