Homeschooling as a single parent

Mamas with no village doing it alone . How do you go about homeschooling your little ones ?

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Homeschooling has been such a blessing for our family. My husband and I chose this path so our children could grow academically, spiritually, and emotionally in a peaceful Christ-centered environment while also learning important life skills and strong biblical values.
One of the greatest blessings is the freedom it gives our family — from integrating faith into everyday learning to creating meaningful experiences through travel, family time, nature, and real-life learning opportunities.
To help our children socialize and build leadership and life skills, we joined Trail Life USA for our boys, where my husband serves as a troop leader, and American Heritage Girls for our girls, where I was involved as one of the moms before taking a short break to focus on my own education.
For our family, homeschooling has brought peace, freedom, stronger family connection, and the ability to raise our children with Christ at the center of it all.

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Am I being too strict for meal time for my little one?

My little boy who is nearly 3 is going through a weird phase of not wanting to feed himself his meals anymore so relies on us to do it - when he’s in nursery he’ll feed himself but that’s it.

At his grandparents if he doesn’t eat a meal, he’ll get an alternative and it’s not always the healthiest. At home, when he doesn’t eat a meal he knows there is no alternative until snack time and we take his food away after 30 mins of he’s not ate it. Even if he asks for something healthy after not eating his meal, I don’t give in and he has to wait until snack time.

He also isn’t allowed to have any treats/dessert until a meal is finished and I get snide throw away comments from my MIL saying I’m so glad you’re not my mum and dad.

I know I’m possibly strict and as his parents it should be up to me to decide how to raise him (which I’m doing), but I’d like to know how others approach this and if it’s the best way of handling this situation?! 🙃

Posting as anon in case if my MIL somehow sees this haha

UK families - how much is your weekly shopping?

Even better if you can tell me how many people it feeds in your household.
Our food alone is about £90-£100 for a week, but then I go to cheaper shops for cleaning supplies, snacks for the kids, fruit ect and I think that’s where I keep over spending.
But then I do have two toddlers who just eat so so much fruit.

Whos looking after your LOs while in labour?

Just collecting some thoughts! I've only ever had my mum for childcare, and she's travelling when I'm due, so I'm wondering what alternatives people are using for childcare for the existing little ones when you're due your next! We'd book a babysitter but not sure if we could just call a sitter last min when the baby's decided to arrive!

Thank you :)

failure

took my child out of nursery, due to the place being absolutely awful and feeling my child wasnt safe there but now im being told to not send my child to any nurseries and wait til starts school when 4, got just under a year. BUT I feel like such a failure of a mother, not providing my child with social interactions and not making friends, family and friends with children dont really both with us either. am I a bad mum for not trying to put my child back into a nursery or should I just wait it out and keep teaching my child myself and get them ready for school?

Meals

I have no idea what I’m supposed to be feeding my 9 month old. I look online and it’s recipes with loads of ingredients and I don’t wanna spend hours in the kitchen when it’ll probably end up on the floor. Any ideas for normal meal ideas

I hate MY PARTNER SO MUCH

Y’all, I honestly don’t know what to do anymore. It feels like my partner keeps pushing my buttons until I react angrily, and it’s happening in front of my son. That’s the part that hurts the most.

My son has always been a huge mama’s boy, but lately whenever there is tension, he runs straight to his dad. I know he’s just a child and is probably responding to the situation, but it still breaks my heart. Sometimes I’m scared that if our relationship keeps getting worse, I’ll start feeling like I’m losing the closeness and bond I’ve always had with my son.

That thought terrifies me, because my son is everything to me. Right now I feel emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, and afraid of losing the one relationship that means the most in my life.