tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post1606775315478325602..comments2023-11-03T07:29:16.334+00:00Comments on The Potty Diaries: What I've learned this summer; Part 2Potty Mummyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04751869800592294891noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-44108493262123261662012-08-15T23:32:47.526+01:002012-08-15T23:32:47.526+01:00I don't know if I could home school either (an...I don't know if I could home school either (and I'm a teacher!), but I did enjoy the fun of 'sneaking in' the 3 Rs in the summers when the boys were small (Son#2, age 8: "Mom, why are you always trying to educate us?") I have fond memories of the 'reading forts' they built in the living room in the too-hot afternoons in Phoenix. They rigged up their forts and I supplied them with nifty flashlights (only to be used in the reading forts)and good books and they thought they were getting away with something while I laughed up my sleeve. Both are avid readers to this day, although Son#2's Kindle expenditures occasionally give me heart failure...MsCarolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03623997911568143459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-12159669956125667572012-08-14T23:26:48.967+01:002012-08-14T23:26:48.967+01:00Ditto on the home schooling. Me and the 9 year old...Ditto on the home schooling. Me and the 9 year old "agreed" yesterday that he'd do 20 minutes a day of piano practice and a lot of reading in the run up to going back to school. Day two and that seems to have gone flying out the window. Man-Child has to take a practice very important test on Saturday and seems to think he can breeze in without even looking at previous examples. I have even gone so far as printing out a sample from the test web site, putting it on his desk and telling him he has to do a bit every night. Ha...Expat mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17798190669591053390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175562867822111389.post-89184048211951717752012-08-14T16:02:36.628+01:002012-08-14T16:02:36.628+01:00I'm dying to know who that was now - please PM...I'm dying to know who that was now - please PM, give us a hint? <br /><br />Couldn't home school my children either - have just spent a whole morning persuading one to practise the piano and the other to do some maths. Getting them to clean up the playroom is hard enough!nappy valley girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788949037047084412noreply@blogger.com