Just a Suggestion

I won't start blogging after every school day, I promise, but sometimes it helps me to think things through by writing about them. Today was Day Two and I can't say that it went much better than the first! Well, the afternoon was okay, but the morning was CHAOS!

I certainly don't think Sawyer is the cause of all the chaos or the reason that things haven't run very smoothly these last two days, but I must admit it is amazing how quiet things get when he goes to his room for Rest Time. It's not just that he's not around to talk or disrupt, either; Tyler, Darcy and Peyton are also guilty of taking just about any opportunity to get in on his games if they should catch sight of him! What can I say? Sawyer is a popular little boy!

Here's the latest suggestion that I'm mulling over: This afternoon when Sawyer retired to his room, we finished the balance of our school work and I couldn't help but think, "Why don't I give the kids the morning off and do school in the afternoon, instead of the other way around?" There are only two obvious hitches in my plan that I can see from the start: #1 Even when we begin school bright and early in the morning, with three students we still end up working sometimes as late as 3:00 or 3:30, so if we don't start until, say, 12:30 or 1:00, even Sawyer-less, will we be able to finish before suppertime? And #2 In the past the kids have proven to be pretty sluggish after lunch (which is normal), but I wonder if they would feel quite so sluggish if they've had all morning to pursue their respective interests; I wonder, indeed, if they might not be MORE productive if they're not eyeing the clock and hoping to get finished so they may have the afternoon off.

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