Things that have been on my mind this week:
- Politics and feelings of impotent rage melting into fatigue.
- Quantum physics: MIT has lectures available on youtube.
- Highschool schedule for next year (they are moving to block scheduling)
- Talking to big kids about college and careers
- Complicated relationship with my teen daughter
- No matter what I do, don't do, say, or don't say - everything will always be my fault (and require lengthy therapy).
- Teenage. Girls.
- Finding the right balance of "push" and "let be" with the big kids (mostly for our son. With our daughter, it's "let be" or get a raging demon-child).
- Getting kids to happily help out with chores.
- Feeding kids: one of the kids is underweight (like, below 1%... ). This is not a picky eater (will happily eat fruit and vegetables, fish, meat, milk... likes to try new foods). We met with an endocrinologist, GI specialist, and will be meeting with a nutritionist. So far, the diagnosis is "nado bol'she kushat'" - "eat more". GI doc gave us a pile of high-caloric food bottles/pouches. Unfortunately, all of them were pronounced to be "yuck". (I tried one - it tasted like sugary mud).
- Food: we try to eat healthy and minimize uber-processed stuff (without totally cutting it out ). What kids eat in school - I have no idea and I try not to think about it too much.
- They usually buy lunches
- Kids are welcome to pack their own lunches - only 1 of the kids does it on a regular basis.
- Weather: it's gotten too warm (for January). But I'm glad we had about a week of beautiful cold weather and snow, so that I got my wintery hikes and the kids were able to ice skate on the pond.
What's on your mind this week?
We have block scheduling, let me know if you have questions- I like it.
ReplyDeleteL just this week stated she does not want school lunch. Okay, so now we pack her lunch.
"Happily" and chores do not go together lol
How long are your classes? Is it hard to stay focused on the work - both for you and the students?
DeleteThe school will have 4 lunch blocks, and it looks like some of the lunches will be breaking up the classes. So it could be 40 min of class, then lunch, than another 40 min of class. On one hand, it seems like it would be a lot of wasted time settling in, getting back into the work flow, etc... On the other hand, maybe for some classes it would be a nice break... I guess we'll see.