Comments on Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers: How Do You Handle Sick Days?

I'm glad you posted this. I am just getting s...

2010-08-28T23:40:26.603-04:00

I'm glad you posted this. I am just getting started so I was wondering! This week my 3 year old was sick, but not so sick (she only threw up a few times) that she minded sitting on the couch and listening to reading, and watching her sister do activities. We completed most of that school day. If the 1 year old was sick... I'm sure I would have had to call school off for the day. If the 5 year old was very sick, since she's the school child, I guess it would be too.

When you said sick days, I automatically thought a...

2010-08-28T01:10:06.642-04:00

When you said sick days, I automatically thought about sick Mom. I have had health issues for the last 6 years of our 16 years of homeschooling and have had to just push through. I thought it was an even better reason to homeschool and not put the kids in public school. On the sickest days, I stayed in bed and the kids had to work on their own as best as they could.(I had older kids who were wonderful.) On better days, they could join me in the bed. On good days, I stationed myself on the couch. I purposed to keep going, to not let myself get crabby and stressed because I didn't feel good, and I learned to study the really important things.

Above all, I cherished the time with my kids. We have a blessed job!

I'm pretty new at this, but basically, if we g...

2010-08-26T23:30:01.508-04:00

I'm pretty new at this, but basically, if we get our reading in, I count is as a day. Of course, we're just a month into dd's 1st grade year, and my only experience was a couple of days of K last year. I blogged about it here---> http://www.hopeisthewordblog.com/2010/03/01/sick-day/
and here --->
http://www.hopeisthewordblog.com/2010/03/07/sick-days-retrospective/

We are pretty similar too. I will count the day (...

2010-08-25T18:00:13.260-04:00

We are pretty similar too. I will count the day (we need to document 180 days too) if we manage anything, which could include the kids listening to me read aloud, watching a movie (such as a science documentary) or doing any reading on their own that's not total fluff.

Some sick days are also good for workbooks. Every year I get each of my children a Spectrum Test Prep book. We do those just to keep up on skills that might get missed. (And to laugh at the Social Studies questions.) A little grammar worksheet might be fine for a day when a child is not feeling too great but isn't sick enough to be flat out doing nothing.

It depends more on WHO is sick. I have 4 kids. T...

2010-08-25T14:31:33.646-04:00

It depends more on WHO is sick. I have 4 kids. The oldest is like a workhorse. If he's sick he still can function on almost all cylinders so I generally let him read and do most of the stuff and let him skip his hated subjects like math and handwriting.

My six year old does not do things by halves. If she even runs a slight fever she's in zombie land. So if she's sick she's laying down with a book or watching tv or asleep.

If they are both sick its a day off. TV on, love and pampering, we'll make the day up later, I keep it flexible.

If MOMMY is sick but functioning we do the easier subjects if mommy is sick and absolutely miserable we play 'lets watch tv' for the day. :)

Unfortunately with 4 kids when one gets sick its just a matter of time before atleast 70 percent of the home is ill. :P

OH and if the 2 younger are sick its a day off too because the 3 year old is a klingon when sick and the baby is a baby :)

We take the day off as we do all year schooling. S...

2010-08-25T09:04:43.732-04:00

We take the day off as we do all year schooling. So I don't worry about missing a day or two. Luckily my kids aren't sick often.

Pretty much the same way that you do, unless someo...

2010-08-25T08:36:16.228-04:00

Pretty much the same way that you do, unless someone is REALLY sick and totally lethargic. This only happens about 1 day each year per kid, so we are really blessed!