We all had to go in and get shots today for our trip to Trinidad. I knew the wait would be long so I had the girls bring in clipboards with their work. I was helping my oldest with some math. Hubby kept looking over my shoulder and helping along with me. It was driving me and daughter NUTS!!! She didn't know which one to listen to! I had to finally ask hubby to either take over and do it or let me do it!
BDT!!! i hear you, My dh asks questions when I have things running smoth and quiet that make me doubt that I am doing a good enough job. But when the kid does the questions and gets them right, I guess II am doing it well enough?
Exactly! We had a day off of HS because DH stayed home today. He is now questioning why we aren't getting anything done. It's because it takes me 2 days to undo what he does wrong the one day he stays home. It works better if I don't try. Sigh! Wonder if DH will buy it if I said I wanted to just concentrate on fun things with DS when DH is around. That it counts for DS to learn good family values and I count the kitchen time as Home Ec.
You know it is so hard be cause they mean well by it and are really wanting to be helpful in what they are doing but we have our ways of doing things and its been that way all the years and now he wants to ehlp and it is kind of like if I walked into a teachers class room and tried to take over lol Maybe its also a pride thing for me , its my job to teach my kids, I don't do his job or tell him how to... but I do appreciate the fact he wants to help out.
Oh great idea! May be make him do PE? or have some Hands on learning activities in a box to use when dh is home? I used to have him do the science experiments but we are so out of the box this year that he went over ds's head when he tried to help.
Yep! exactly, they just want to help too, I guess we should think about it this way; we are so good at teaching the kids that even the hubby wants to help out!
It's nice to know I'm not the only with interference issues with dh. My dh would come in and say, "Are you done yet"? about 10 times in a row. Or lay down in the floor and go to sleep (and he snores like a bear!). Or how about just sitting there, saying are you done yet every five minutes and eating raw turnips!!! I finally banned him from the school room after he came in and made phone calls on his cell phone. I asked him if he would be allowed to do that in a ps schoolroom. Which we all know the answer is NO. So I asked him if he wouldn't do it in a ps room why would he do it in ours. Case closed.
My DH stayed home today because he didn't feel well. Every time I started with schoolwork, DH would call me away on some inane issue. I know he was bored and lonely. Later though he had the nerve to say, "Don't you think you should have done more with the homeschooling?" Next day DH stays home sick, DS and I are going on a field trip!
My boys know that if they have a big enough fit, daddy will coddle them. This happened relatively recently: after weeks of doing borrowing, and one whole page of borrowing problems just in that moment, DS started crying saying he didn't know how. DH swooped in "taught" him again, because he obviously didn't know how. *face palm* I think it's that the boys want time with daddy when he's home (and rightly so), but they don't know how to get it other than to 'play dumb'.
My DH doesn't try to help, but he is just such a distraction when he's at home! I think the science experiment box idea is great - don't know why I haven't thought of that before! LOL It really is just so much easier when he is at work.
I can relate! DH is on vacation this week while his office is moving. I handed him a book on building model airplanes and sent him to the hardware store to pick up the supplies while I homeschooled DS! Tomorrow I'll let him build the airplane, and I'll have to think of another idea for Friday!
My husband is totally on board with homeschooling. He will send me things for the kids to watch, like the recent space shuttle launch. He called me 4 times that morning to make sure I remembered, told me to log on to NASA early so we could hear Mission Control talking, called again asking if we got online yet, and then called afterward asking the kids what they thought about it. Sheeze! It was so funny...like everytime the phone rang-it's dad!
For the Son , my hubby did that too in the early years, now he tries to help but ds is not at the same level as he is teaching... he is extremely bright my dh and would be an awesome teacher if he had more time to do so. It kind of makes me scared when he starts asking ds questions I have not taught yet cause its not in my schedule yet lol
I hear..that is why dh no longer helps with Math. My dh also does science experiments with my dd's (ages 15 and 13) and has been for years. I have a big book ( 705 science experiments and the kitchen science book) and I tell him what we are studying and then look up what experiments they can do in the book on that subject/concept. Also we will watch a DVD about History and the girls will do a Farcebook page about a famous person that we learned about in the video. We also do Art and Home Ec ( we are learning to sew and can) when he is home. Sometimes (if I have advance notice he is staying home) I will just double the work load the day before ( or over a few days) and we will have a fun day and do a field trip with my dh. It usually involves hiking and we really enjoy that.
ForTheSon: Here is the link http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html On that page you can go to live streaming television. Its on the lower left of the page.
