How much is too much?

We have been homeschooling high school since January of this year.  At the moment I won't go into the fiasco that resulted from the neighbourhood high school. 

We quickly learned that my oldest needed year round courses.  After going 8 months without math his confindence was seriously undermined so at the request of both boys we are not semestered.  The boys had a lot of say in their subject choices (within reason).  They are carrying about 8-9 subjects each.  The challenge now is determining how much work should be assigned each day.  I believe that they both need the responsibility of managing major projects and regular homework in order to prepare them for post secondary education.  Slowly we are getting it tweaked but haven't quite managed it with math yet. 

Thankfully math is not my department!  While I supervise and teach classes during the day. Dad is the go to guy for math and does evening math class once a week (at least he will once he isn't running out to meeting at church).

So far the planners are working and homework is getting recorded daily.  The oldest struggles though when the list looks too long ~ even though it might only be 20 min or so for each subject.  We still have to work on breaking down the tasks so they aren't so overwhelming.  The perfectionist in him gets the best of him some days.

How long do your kids spend on homework?

Job hunting

Now that the first week of school is complete I am really feeling the pressure to find a job. The challenge is finding a job that I am physically able to do, which allows flexibility needed for medical appointments and time too homeschool.  This balance seems to be especially elusive right now. 

My resume is dusted off and polished.  I have sent out many applications.  It is truly disheartening that businesses can even ackowledge the receipt of a resume via email.  Surely clicking the read response isn't that difficult. 

I did get a call today (of course I was at an appointment and missed the call).  Thank goodness Andrew took a message.  I will call on Monday to schedule the interview.  In the mean time I will take another cruise through all the job sites I have discovered on line.