#school

We just completed our first #school 📚 year, and what a journey it's been! This wasn't just his learning experience - we grew as parents too. There were moments of #friction with the school 🏫, those inevitable differences when you're trying to align educational philosophies. But that's part of the process.

One major shift: our travel ✈️ plans now revolve around school holidays. We've learned to embrace longer family trips that sync with his schedule. It's actually opened up new possibilities...

This is our second year in school, and halfway through the year they started sending homework from the #UFLI program. Two pages per week — our first real experience with “homework.” But the problem isn’t the homework itself… it’s what it asks for: decoding CVC words, reading, understanding, and even drawing what was understood.

For several weeks we tried to do it, but my son doesn’t understand it, gets frustrated, and loses interest. One day I wrote to the teacher saying we would only do one...