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    I've tried to streamline my food preparation, as that was my biggest household time suck. I shop once per week, and on grocery day, I break down all the fruits, vegetables, and proteins into ready-to-cook portions. Because I rely heavily on roasting or steaming veggies, it takes less than a minute to prep those. I braise most of my meats, which requires only as much time as is needed to brown the outside of the meat and pop it in the oven. Most evenings, it takes me under 5 minutes of active work to get dinner ready, thanks to my advance prep work.


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    My DW formally homeschooled our DD at age 8 through 2nd and 3rd grade in a single year, with a target of passing the state assessment test at the end, and they still spent less than three hours a day doing it. Given that there's no pressure on your situation, as your DD will be ready for K whether you homeschool her or not, you could budget yourself a lot less time than that. Maybe a half hour of reading to her, and another half hour discussing a topic of her choice, per day? Done.

    This could be supplemented by age/ability appropriate workbooks, so she can do school work on her own, and your prep work is reduced to, "read the directions, and show DD how to do it." My DD was always delighted when DW brought a new one home. "Mommy, can I work on my math book?" is another one of those phrases you rarely hear outside of households with a little giftie.

    Topic-of-the-day stuff in our case got punted to me by DW, and I'd come home from work to a question ambush, so there was no time to prepare. My solution was to sit down with DD in my lap at the computer, pull up some images on the topic from a web search, and describe what we were looking at. That was enough to satisfy her curiosity at that age.

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    I would do a bunch of read alouds and tons of play at age four. I'm currently homeschooling my 6.5 year old and I also have a 4 and 3 year old at home. It is amazing what they have picked up just from the read alouds alone. Kids are little sponges smile

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    Thanks all, some great advice. I think I'm just feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment, I'm sure it will pass!

    Dude, topic of the day sounds so much more achievable than the weekly stuff I come across on HS sites. I keep thinking, well this is going to last an hour, the what....


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