Not much sleep

I am tired this morning as we stayed up later than usual last night with Eric watching a required movie for his Film and Worldview class called, "Little Miss Sunshine".  Fortunately we have a Clear Play filter to get rid of the really bad language and sexual issues in the movie but even so it was in my top 5 worst movies ever made.  Eric's mentor for the class wanted the kids to watch it to show them a picture of nihilism and also to show them how horrible a movie could be.  He was right!

Speaking of Eric, he finished reading Sean Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens" yesterday and liked it so much he wants to sign up for the TJed Academy online class covering the same book in March.  He has encouraged all the other kids to read it as well.

I said I would post more about schedules, so here is our youth daily schedule (youth being those kids in dialectic/transition to scholar/scholar phase:

6:00-12:00 - Hygiene, Breakfast, Math, Chores, Grammar, Read Aloud, Classical Reading (not in this order, they can structure when they do what except for Real Aloud and Breakfast)

12:00 - 3:00 - Lunch, Play with the little kids, Are of Interest/Classical Reading

3:00-5:00 - Chores, Classical Reading

5:00 - 8:00 - Whole house pickup, Dinner/Bible/Sing, Personal or Family Time

You will notice no where on the list does it talk about playing.  I believe once young people reach this stage, there time of playing should be completed and they should be young adults, structuring their day like an adult would.  For them, their "play time" should take on a more adult feel and is usually available to them on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.  This may sound harsh but we have too many youth that spend all of their time playing and the time for that is past.

Tomorrow I will post on our younger childrens' schedule.