Too much fighting, screaming, I'm toast

This morning startedoff with screaming and fighting and it was only 7:30.  They were fighting over who was going to get the tablet first.  Right then I decided that today was going to be a no screen time day.  As grateful as I am for youtube teachers, and online school work, sometimes I like to step back and take it back to good ole' paper and books.  Then I told them that fighting equals both parties going to their room for a period of time.

There has been less fighting, not non.  But less.  They have read books, played with a balloon, jumped on the trampoline, etc.

There are plenty of things to do but we get so sucked in to technology.  We lived for thousands of years without technology.  It is great and has advanced science and medicine but I think that it has retarded us socially.

Sitting here typing, the girls are at the table eating their food.  They are playing rock, paper, scissors.  It is finally nice to hear them laughing with each other, especially Brystol.

Social distancing has been extremely hard.  I go nuts some days.  I lose my mind some days.  Some days go by easily and I'm grateful.

I feel like I'm failing Hailey and Emi when it comes to their schooling because I'm not getting everything done that the teachers are all assigning.  There's reading, math, online reading and math, spelling, etc.

Today as I was overwhelmed and frustrated from the yelling, i send the kids to their rooms and found a couple 1 inch binders.  I sorted all of their assignments into sections and then wrote a sheet on the fridge of things to remember to do.  Some are daily things and some are weekly.  I hope that it helps.

As I try and journal about the month that is going to pass in quarantine, I don't want to just highlight the happy, positive things.  That's not life.  Life has hard times, frustrating times, time when we just want to hide in our room, cover our head with a pillow and scream or cry. 


Amendment:  By the middle of the afternoon we had figured out how to get some homework done without fighting.  We were doing ok without the screens.