Child Led Learning and the Unmotivated Child
DS1 LOVES to try new things and loves to challenge himself so letting him just set the pace of homeschool and follow his passions has goen great.
Enter DS2, now 6 yrs old. This guy tries somehting new once and declares "It's too hard." and will nto try again. I let him choose his own activity and he'll play with something for maybe 5 minutes and then pester me for a video. I redirect. Repeat. We do this all day long. The constant redirection and whining is wearing me down. Ocassionally he'll be happy playing legos or pretend but so much of the time he just follows me around being bored. If I try assigning a specific activity it's just all complaining even if I sit with him and try to make it a game. What do I do with this kid? He just seems to have no desire to learn anything!
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arelyn
World traveling mama to my star my sunshine and the monsoon baby Wife to my crazy ethnomusicologist
This road that we travel, may it be the straight and narrow. God give us peace and grace from you all the day through.
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