Here are a couple tips for newbies to homeschooling.
1) don't schedule 5-6h of lessons + an outside activity which takes you out of the house for 4h + go shopping for runners for a 12yo boy whose feet have suddenly grown 2 sizes - all on ONE DAY. Something will have to give.
Maybe none of you suffer from the delusion that you can stuff at least 30h of stuff into a 24h day if you just.pack.efficiently. I not only suffer from this delusion, it's been getting worse each year. I need that little gizmo Hermione had in The Prisoner of Azkaban which allowed her to be in two places at the same time. Let me know where I can get one, please.
2) Printers will just suddenly roll over and die when you need them most. It's review week for Hugo, I've got worksheets to print out & instead of doing them, I've spent a large chunk of time arguing with the printer. (The only upside to this is that it means I've not spent any time arguing with Hugo; the printer is taking up all my energy).
Soon it will be time to make a decision regarding continuing to debate the merits of printing in color without smears, or moving to plan B: kick it to the curb & get another printer. But this generates yet another dilemma: buy online - pro: it's fast, click, click, click! & I love to shop online (no people you have to talk to!); con: there will be a delay in delivery & I need the darned thing this week. OR go to store: - pro: get it right away; con: must actually leave house & potentially have to speak to someone.
Just realized that a printer is remarkably like an 'almost teen' boy. You keep sending them to clean themselves up & they keep coming back saying "I did it!" and you keep saying "That's not good enough! Do it again!" I've got the printer running a self check & a cleaning for the billionth time. If that doesn't work, I'll move on to threatening it with a USB cord.
3 comments:
We bit the big one and bought a new printer a month or so ago. I made my husband go do it. That's his job anyway, isn't it? Plus it's safer than flogging anything with a USB cord.
By the time you done repeated head cleanings on the printer, you just about might as well buy a new one anyway. You've already used up much of the ink, and a new printer comes with brand new ink cartridges, often for not much more than going and buying a full set of cartridges.
I am debating over replacing mine right now. Some how it seems to have lost two of three feed wheels, so doesn't always feed in properly, and there is one spot that repeated head cleanings don't seem to clear up.
But then it's not long since I put in new ink cartridges, so feel I need to get my money's worth out of them first:)
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I hate seeing my own spelling mistakes in print:(
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