I love paperwork, and could sit all day organizing, filing, filling things out, making lists...I love it. The thing about all that is that as a homeschooling teacher, I have the tendency to add more paperwork, or resources to our schooltime. I usually find something online that looks too good to pass up, or hear about a book that is just perfect! The next thing I know, I'm wondering how we got so bogged down. It's me!I have been working on changing my mindset and really, I HAVE to change my mindset where schooling is concerned. Before Henry, Sophia and Grace were born, I would get us bogged down with too many resources, but we would eventually be able to plow through. Now I've noticed with the extra sweeties running around, that the bogged down turns into "stalled out."
I'm in the stalled out mode with Henry right now. He is a busy, busy boy and he encourages my tendency to add to many resources to a lesson simply because he is always looking for MORE to do. I've been thinking and praying about it, and I realize that I need to streamline what I've been doing, as well as firmly guide him into doing other activities that can keep his mind engaged. And I can do that if I can get out from underneath the paperwork and see what there is to see around me. ;-)
