Home Educating Second Son

We started when on our state the "School Year" starts counting - July 1st - and as how he would be 3 going on 4 during the 2018-2019 "School Year", I looked for very minimal and so we could say we were doing something - with the fact that 3 year olds go to public preschool now, all the relatives and people on our social circles are constantly asking and wondering why i'm not doing preschool after all it is, in their words, soooooo fun.

We did well for about 4 weeks - not every day mind you but that is about as far as we got when it was apparent he was not quite ready to commit to doing God's Little Explorers (free or paid version) and it was fun and i liked many of her ideas so when the childcare room at the gym announced they would start it the week of September 10th, I felt ok with him just getting things whenever he was there. (we've become night-owls and miss the childcare hours at the gym a lot these days)

We attempted Heart of Dakota's Little Hands to Heaven program because again very gently with a Bible story and song and maybe a craft/game and a letter sound and counting - no bog down and  30 minutes or so.  That went about 3 weeks worth (not everyday but we made it through 15 days worth over the time we tried to implement just 30 minutes a day.

So I shelved it and decided that perhaps when he was 4 and a half it would be better to implement a "morning basket" time.

We started up again on April 29th with a mesh up of the Sonlight P3/4 core and HOD's Little Hands to Heaven. We've only done about 2 weeks of the mesh up guide I made and that was a record setting pace of  4 weeks to get through 10 days 😂😂😂

However, all children reach milestones at different ages and I remember when he was turing 3 and was still addicted to his pacifier, was not talking (sure he knew a few words he had his own way of saying but usually he was just silent), and still in diapers (where as his older brother had ditched the diapers by 2.75 yrs of age and his pacifier (bobby as he called it) and had been talking for as far back as i could remember by the time he was turning 3. All that to say that it might have taken little brother until 2 yrs and 11 months to decide to get vocal and 3 yrs and 1 month to drop his pacifier and 4 yrs and 5.5 months before he decided he was ready to ditch diapers - but oh yeah mini-happy dance is definitely in order and this proves that while he may not be as receptive to a little bit of preschool type things with mom just yet (like big brother was by that age), I'm confident we will get there. All in good time - enjoying the journey!