Practice what you preach I always say.
My youngest daughter is 10 going on 20. As some of you know I pulled her out of the state system when they turned into Nazis 20 ish months ago.
Now the challenge is keeping her with some sort of discipline so she does not turn into one of the over entitled brats we have witnessed over the last 20 years, Greta springs to mind.
This morning she was asking me to teach her French, the language.
Now to me this proves 1 thing at least, when not forced to learn something - children ask to be taught.
As much as I have shielded her from the Davos insanity & government bs she only has 2 adults to listen to most of the time, so she is very grown up for 10.
She just came and asked me to teach her Spanish now, 4 languages and 10 years old.
And this is the thing is it not, let them flourish on their own and they will willingly want to learn.
Phone zombies.
She had started to get way too much into, for my liking at least, phone gaming, so we put a timer on each game, she got around that by adjusting the time on the phone so it appeared as it was a different day. So now the phone stays next to me not her.
So what lessons do we learn as parents?
Well below is a list of things we do home schooling.
- 1 She has to walk the dog first thing in the morning as she wanted a dog.
Now if I think back to when she was at school, this time of the morning she would be carrying (for a small child) a back breaking back pack to school. I did weigh it, over 11kg it was.
2 She has to clean her Guinea pig cage and feed it, she wanted it, her responsibility.
3 Sit down and learn something new about maths, history (as told) and question it.
4 She attends guitar lessons from someone else once a week, if I taught her she would not listen, letting her go with 2 friends for lessons gives her competitive motivation.
5 Swimming classes, these give her that much needed social thing, and competition to succeed.
6 Computer software programming. Now this is something I do enjoy.
7 Growing food from seeds, not GMO crap.
8 Arts and crafts, making things from clay, painting, being creative with anything she can find, making presents not buying them.
As we learn how to keep her motivated, I am in no way any kind of expert, but my learning curve is as stretched as hers.
She reads more books in a month than I have read in years.
In the summer and spring it is much easier as her friends are on the playground outside after school. But most of them now keep getting told to self isolate, so even guitar lessons can be a lonely event with only her attending.
When other parents will say enough is enough is beyond me.
Maybe others that home school and I could share how we do it and results? Just a thought.
I will be adding a homeschooling tag to these posts from this day forward.
Be the change you want.
Have a superb day.
Fact chuckers didn't exist until the truth needed to be buried!
Actually, Bolshevik Soviets did the same thing - mind you, so did the Czar before them.
Anyway... yep, we started by having a loose timetable, then noticed we did much more in 4 hours than school ever did in 7!! So we keep those formal lessons just long enough to keep the enthusiasm going - usually 90 minutes fly by!
Mine's 13, and smarter than most adults :-) I do wonder whether this would be the norm were they not turned into obedient, dependent idiots. Many kids seem to be taught this subtle helplessness until it becomes their norm - even by their parents.
We ARE the change bud, I keep saying it, be the change you want.
And yes agreed, the schools had my daughter for more hours and taught her less.
She will never be going back to them.
She also does a lot of courses on Coursera - she finished philosophy intro and some vet modules. That's where she got her recent insight. lol. @dudiland
Again, interesting taking a simple idea and pushing it to its limits - the research on domesticating wild foxes was almost halted for political reasons - I haven't read it all but smells like the domestication of humans is a subject verboten.
So I usually start with some scientific question - that then can go down a number of avenues depending on questions asked - usually is "how do we know?"
How do we know, superb question. It seems to me at least most people have been domesticated by a bunch of people that are near useless that pretend to work in governments.
Had to laugh today, I went to a supermarket with my daughter, she picked up a plastic glove and put it on while in the queue at the checkout and said "oh no we are all going to die," and then put it over her mouth lol. See, she is getting a bit toooooo much adult conversation, the adults in the queue in masks looked perplexed. We are mask-less and not in the cult.
She's having so much better learning now then going to conventional schooling 👍
And way more fun, I never enjoyed state schools, so yes, it is more fun than them. Hey teacher, leave them kids alone (Pink Floyd) springs to mind, plus her headmistress was a child hating dragon.
My wife had a few run ins and arguments with her, and reminded her she is a public servant, something the dragon had forgotten it seems.
Always good to have more fun👍
Meaning of life, FUN bro.
Yeeeessss👍