Well, our first day of pre-K was a success. Caden is such a smart little sponge, he makes it pretty easy on me... except when it comes to numbers. Alas, my son seems to have inherited my mathematical mind block. We're both geared toward language and art. Numbers make our eyes glaze over.
We actually did a lot more than I had planned. He completed the first page in his alphabet workbook, shapes & colors flashcards, number flashcards, LeapFrog Phonics Farm video (thank you, Netflix), practicing the letter A with his Angry Birds marker board, and finally some pre-K alphabet games on my Kindle. Yes, he actually wanted to do all of that. Thankfully, the younger siblings all obligingly took a 2+ hour nap (in fact, they're still napping). I think I can get the hang of this.
A lot of people laugh when I confess that I'm terrified of homeschooling, considering my own mother homeschooled me K-12. It's not that I feel ill-equipped to teach (at least K-6), it's because I am not a very structured or organized person. I remember my mother having everything planned out in her lesson plan book, schedules made out, books & desks all organized. I guess I felt like I had to live up to all of that.
Then I remind myself that Caden is 4 and this is just pre-K. We only have to do this 2-3 days a week. I don't need to teach him calculus. Stop stressing, Carey. It brings me back to when he was a newborn and I was freaking out because I thought I'd be a bad parent. I was clueless about everything, and yet somehow we both survived... along with two more siblings. This will pass. By the time I get to little brother and sister, I will have learned new ways to teach and it won't be so scary (ok, teaching Riley still scares me... he's a little wild man).
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