Wednesday, January 5, 2022

The Unholy Upside of Homeschooling

It is getting harder and harder to maintain a work-life balance due to the Covid pandemic. With the surge in infections the worldover, maybe it's time to see if there's a better alternative to homeschooling, because if this is the 'future', as it's being touted, then I'm certainly not very excited about it! But maybe there is an upside? let's try to look at it: 

 1. You don't have to dress up to drop your kid to school: Not that changing from your pyjamas to your semi-outside clothes was much of a stretch to begin with, but now you can leave it out altogether! 

 2. You don't have to spend around 10 minutes telling your kid "Wow, you can untangle the knot you made yourself with your shoelaces when you weren't listening to me! Hooray!" 

 3. You don't have to do small talk with other parents. "Been upto anything much over the weekend?" "Nope. You?" "Nope" 

 4. You get to find out how clever your child *really* is. "No, light is L-I-G-H-T and lit is L-I-T but like is L-I-K-E. Now that we're done with basic phonics, you write a sentence." And she starts writing 'Migh naim is...' 

 5. You don't need to use any haircare products, because you'll pull all your hair out before you know it. So, these were some advantages of homeschooling. Stay tuned for more.