Unless you are going to sit at the table and work to a structure, and goodness knows it could work for you, you have to have a bit of patience. And trust. And, I've realised, quite a bit of emotional resilience.
We don't do school at home, structure doesn't work for us. That may change by child or due to interest or requirement to just get things done, I'm thinking about igcse's.
But the good thing about learning to recognise that need to trust is that it doesn't really matter if a child spends all their time researching swords, castles, Greek gods or ponies. It doesn't matter if they're in their pjs all day doing it, unless we need to go the the library of course. They frown on that!
They can spend all day teaching themselves to play the recorder or playing tunnels because the next day they will spend it writing a short story or a novel maybe. Perhaps they'll sew or work out how much it would cost for six people to travel to Athens. They might teach themselves how to play the whole of David Bowies back catalogue and read a bit of Shakespeare.
The thing is, this is how it works for us.
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