So special–love it!

So true, Hannah!

Such lovely ideas, Amber!

When my child’s motivation begins to decline, I focus on making the challengin tasks fun. Math games, science experiments, Mad Libs, etc. Sometimes, we also need a break. Yesterday, we were all kind of tired and grumpy, so we had a lazy movie day, watched Finding Nemo, and paused the movie to color/label ocean animals then pasted them into the correct ocean layer on our chart.

How old is your son? It sounds like he might not be very old yet. I don’t have much experience yet, but I wanted to encourage you – if he’s young (you said his friends are not yet at school), don’t worry too much about what you might think of as “learning” – things like sitting down to do maths workbooks and handwriting and reading lessons.
Lots of real-life playing (not too much computer playing) and lots of reading books that he is interested in – these are the best things for young children 🙂
Maths concepts come up all the time in real life play. And the more books children sit and hear and look at, the more they will want to learn to read for themselves.

I’m so sorry, Pat! We all feel this way and worry about this at times.

Here are a few links that might help:

https://tjed.org/2015/01/advice-homeschoolers/

https://simplehomeschool.net/coronavirus/

Hi! That’s tough! If he’s already having a hard time loving learning it’s gonna be even harder if his friends are still in Summer break. I totally understand cause even though we are in school here my 12 year olds friends start and get out each day earlier than us. He wants to be on video chat w them. You could try waiting if it’s not gonna mess up your schedule too badly.
Or maybe start slow? Give him an assignment or 2 in the morning and again in the afternoon when he’s taking a break from friends. Or maybe if he’s old enough give him a checklist of stuff to get done before he can play with friends and maybe his motivation to play would drive him to knock it out? Last year my son would sometimes get half his school done before I was up and moving just to get it done and have free time after. : )

I have found that consistency helps a lot with my unmotivated son. If I have a daily schedule/routine on the wall, and stick to it, there’s much less push-back. He helps decide the schedule. I include on that schedule breaks like “Minecraft time” and “outside play time.” That way, he knows he’ll get to do what he wants, and he knows when we will be doing other things.

Have one or two blocks of time (or firm time limits) each day when he’s allowed to do computer games, and be consistent.