I can't stand it!! Its time for meto start homeschooling my 5 year old and the 4 year old starts crying and complaining that I haven't put his racetrack together so he can play with it. So stupid me puts the $@^&%! track together and then he complains that he doesn't want to play with Isaac in the room...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But there were toys and crap all over the floor so ther was no room for the track so I tell him to clean it up and he scuffs his feet and slowly moves to get it done....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Why does he think that every time I try to homeschool he has the roght to start whining and acting like a turd?!?!?!

Hmmm...because, he's 4? Four year-olds can do ANYTHING then want. It's in their rule book.

Nice vent though. I love the title of this thread. Cracked me up right away.

Seriously, he's probably upset that your 5 year-old is getting the one-on-one attention. Do you have one-on-one time with him?

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wifey homeschools our 3.5 year old along with the 6 year old...

Makes him feel included.

My thoughts are what Lynn & Squat are saying....he's feeling excluded & jealous of the attention.

Do you think he'd do pre-K worksheets while you worked with your 5 year old?

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Either that or lock him in a closet.

I've tried teaching them both at the same time and I literally run back and forth and it drives me nuts. Most of the time he is not interested in sitting for more than 30 seconds anyway...:rollseyes:

That was my next thought. Just lock him up. :shh:




















:tease:

Ususally he's pretty good at staying in his room or playing alone for a while....some days however, he thinks he needs to cry and whine at me all morning for some reason...

I just had a bad day yesterday and everything was magnified...Hopefully today will go more smoothly..

Sometimes I have the same problem. There's 4 1/2 years between my girls. It's gotten better now, as I can start my oldest(7) on a project then leave and work with the youngest(3).

We're praying for ya, String! It's hard! But I spent all day yesterday at an elementary school working polls. We arrived at 6:00 am. The doors don't open until 7:15, but there were already kids waiting outside the door with no adult supervision. There were kids ranging in age from kindergarden to 4th grade out there. Weather wasn't bad, a little chilly (about 60F), but not too cold.

All day long you could see the peer pressure between the kids - bad kids egging good kids to misbehave. Kids from broken homes dying for some attention. It was frighteningly nostalgic. My wife looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, "Thank you for homeschooling."

Yeah - it's hard, but it's worth it!

Thanks for the encouragement, Clay...It is soo easy to want to give up and enroll her in public school...