If my life isn’t going to revolve around what I accomplish, I’ll need to find something else
The seven-year-old cannot be cajoled or bribed to complete his long division home-schooling work. I swear he lost respect for me when I begged. Meanwhile, the five-year-old is learning how to drive a hard bargain: he’ll practise reading in return for episodes of Pokémon.
Like daily coronavirus cases, the number of incomplete home-schooling activities continues to climb. Neither figure is ever getting to zero so, for everyone’s sake, I’m trying something new: I’m giving up. Not on my kids or their education, but on my compulsive need to achieve, to be productive and to get things done. I’m embracing lockdown as the perfect time to quit my addiction to achievement.
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