It’s that time of year again, my fellow homeschool moms. C’mon. You know of what I write.
The time when you start to doubt everything you’ve held dear since August, which was when you started The Wonderful New Curriculum That Would Fix Everything. But now, it’s just so last year.
It’s that time when a mom announces at your co-op, “Well, I ordered next year’s -” and before they can finish their sentence you urgently howl, “WHAT ARE YOU USING????”
The time when all the type A moms are finishing up their curriculum for the year, and their deals start showing up on ebay. And so you buy The Ebay Thing, only to realize before it arrives that you want something else.
You know.
When your friend facebook-likes a previously unknown living books history/science/art/music/nature study program that looks absolutely out of this world amazing, and way better than what you and your brood are currently slogging through.
When you take a Homeschool-Personality-Learning-Style quiz and realize you have been doing it ALL WRONG, and you might be ruining your kids by making them learn visually when they should have been learning HANDS-ON. Oops.
When you’ve been studying US History with your tween for what feels like 5,000 years and you just want to move on to something else!!! Like, medieval, or….Greek mythology, or something.
You make a spreadsheet for 2017/18, only to realize that the only way you’ll be happy come next fall is if you can somehow manage to combine Sonlight, My Father’s World, Abeka, Heart of Dakota, Winter’s Promise, 3 different spelling programs, piano lessons, and lego club. And you announce to your husband that you need to lay aside $50K for your homeschool budget. And he just says, “Uh-huh, okay,” with a glazed look in his eyes because no other human being besides yourself can handle this many hours of curriculum shop-talk ad nauseam.
You decide you are going to write your own Bible and Language Arts curriculum, and it will be such an amazing success with your own kids that you will get it published, tour the homeschool conference circuit, and make tons of money to fund the most fabulous and pinterest-y school room you’ve ever seen in your life. You stay up all night thinking it through in your head. But then the next day, you start to map out your plans and realize…meh. That’s too hard.
You have a full online shopping cart at 12 different curriculum websites and for each one, you’ve even typed in ALL your payment info, only to stop short before clicking on PURCHASE.
You’ve googled reviews on every single homeschool curriculum you know about, and spent more time than you’d like to admit in homeschooler chat rooms (the most EXCITING and UN-NERDLIKE of all types of chat rooms, trust me), perusing little arguments that spun off of curriculum reviews in 2003 about state testing, old earth/young earth creationism, Charlotte Mason vs. classical education, etc. etc.
And you realize something. You might have a problem.
Yes, my sweet friends. It’s that time. The Great Curriculum Shuffle of 2017. Godspeed.
The Type B Mom 