flynn011

I had the privilege of driving with my son to Ikea the other night in order to return a damaged item.  It's a two-hour round trip, and gave us some valuable one-on-one time. On the way, I thought I'd ask him how life was going.  He's only 7, so I'm not sure how much detail I was expecting. Nevertheless, he opened up to me.  "I just wish I did my work better." Mommy-probe got into high gear: what do you mean by work? work, as in chores at home? work, as in homeschooling?  And when you say you want to do it better, do you want a schedule?  Something written out? He was pretty quiet after that, so I gave him the low-down of what our homeschool schedule was going to be like this year: the Bible study, the history, the map skills and math and art. "And you'll have a project this year.  Something for history, when we're studying World War One." "I could do something with poetry," he said.  "Like make computer stick people do the acti...