Love to see quality homeschooling examples. My parents "homeschooled" us but constantly disagreed on how to do it.
My Dad was in favor of forced study time, hourly based instead of results based. Often books were assigned that we were not ready for with no rewards if we succeeded at doing above and beyond our work, and punishments if we didn't do enough.
My Mom believed in unschooling where you allow the child complete control over how long, how much, what, and when they study.
They conflicted on this and would take turns who would "win" at controlling the way we studied. The result? Learning was a source of constant stress.
If my Mom won we just wouldn't study because we were anxious about studying as a result of my Dad's heavy hand. Then my Dad would point out that my Mom's method wasn't working so we needed to be forced to learn.
Then we never studied to my Dad's satisfaction, even when he was in charge, and as punishment we got the Internet cut off (I would read How Stuff Works and similar sites which he never considered real studying), and the cable cut off even though I mainly watched History channel, Discovery channel etc, but to him "I was just watching TV all day".
My parents were also hoarders with a roach infestation, they were always falling for MLMs, my Dad was a heavy duty conspiracy theorist. Fun times. 🌚🫠
I do believe in real homeschooling like you experienced though, and it is what I plan to do with my kids when I ultimately have them myself.
Similar to you I felt worried that my education was sub par compared to most people who went to public school, so I went to community college in my late 20s. Ended up graduating with honors, so I guess I'm not an idiot compared to most people after all.
Maybe one day there will be a Bitcoin homeschooling community and all our kids will get the best of socialization and self motivated education. I would like to help create that community when the time comes if it hasn't been created already. Until then, I'll stay humble and stack sats to be able to pay for it!
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Love to see quality homeschooling examples. My parents "homeschooled" us but constantly disagreed on how to do it.
My Dad was in favor of forced study time, hourly based instead of results based. Often books were assigned that we were not ready for with no rewards if we succeeded at doing above and beyond our work, and punishments if we didn't do enough.
My Mom believed in unschooling where you allow the child complete control over how long, how much, what, and when they study.
They conflicted on this and would take turns who would "win" at controlling the way we studied. The result? Learning was a source of constant stress.
If my Mom won we just wouldn't study because we were anxious about studying as a result of my Dad's heavy hand. Then my Dad would point out that my Mom's method wasn't working so we needed to be forced to learn.
Then we never studied to my Dad's satisfaction, even when he was in charge, and as punishment we got the Internet cut off (I would read How Stuff Works and similar sites which he never considered real studying), and the cable cut off even though I mainly watched History channel, Discovery channel etc, but to him "I was just watching TV all day".
My parents were also hoarders with a roach infestation, they were always falling for MLMs, my Dad was a heavy duty conspiracy theorist. Fun times. 🌚🫠
I do believe in real homeschooling like you experienced though, and it is what I plan to do with my kids when I ultimately have them myself.
Similar to you I felt worried that my education was sub par compared to most people who went to public school, so I went to community college in my late 20s. Ended up graduating with honors, so I guess I'm not an idiot compared to most people after all.
Maybe one day there will be a Bitcoin homeschooling community and all our kids will get the best of socialization and self motivated education. I would like to help create that community when the time comes if it hasn't been created already. Until then, I'll stay humble and stack sats to be able to pay for it!
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