So, it turns out home-schooling is most definitely not fun.

 

I genuinely thought it might be. Maybe. For a second. In reality though, it takes a super-human amount of patience, and more energy and hard work than I ever realised, to coax a seven and an eight-year-old to sit down at a table and focus on a task for more than five minutes.

 

Despite some trepidation about how I could juggle work, I had every good intention when I started. I assured myself that, given the glowing reports my two girls have always received from school, the whole thing would be fine. How wrong I was.

 

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The Mumbling Matriarch

More likely to be found swearing under her breath than chairing a PTA meeting, our parenting columnist is remaining anonymous. She'll be back next month for more warts and all attempts to keep up with the Joneses in one of the UK's most affluent city suburbs.

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