Posted on 01/31/2012 6:23:16 PM PST by scripter
Go on any website where there is a story about a school that screwed up — zero tolerance policies, homosexual indoctrination, poor test scores, usurpation of parental authority, whatever, the list is endless — and you will see a slew of negative comments about the public schools that you didn’t see 10 years ago.
People have had it and are looking for something else for their kids and other people are willing to provide it for them.
Age-old? OK....
That we might create a sense of security in our kids by practicing “attachment parenting,”
What does homeschooling have to do with "attachment parenting"? Does this author even know what she is writing about?
They worry that formal schooling might dim their children’s love of learning (yet there is a flip side: a reduced likelihood of being inspired along the way by the occasional magical teacher, full of passion and skill).
LOL...yeah, you're right. Put 'em into the child-only prison system on the off-chance they'll get that one teacher that inspires them for that one year. Good plan.
But my husband and I are loyal to what we call “detachment parenting”: we figure we are doing a good job if Milo is just as confident and comfortable without us as he is with us.
"...because that's all we've seen and despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, we're going to treat our kids like employees."
Family for us is more a condition—a joyous one, for sure—than a project, one of several throughlines of our lives.
Sure, a "condition"--you know, like cancer.
Yet she wonders how kids who spend so much time within a deliberately crafted community will learn to work with people from backgrounds nothing like theirs. She worries, too, about eventual teenage rebellion in families that are so enmeshed.
Leave it to a psychologist to have the Dumbest Quote of the Day.
As I understand it, only in the U.S. is teenage rebellion “expected.” In the vast majority of the rest of the world, no such thing is expected and rarely occurs.
I guess that’s another case of the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. Teenagers are not children, but they’re treated as such; therefore they act like children.
My only problem with this article is that it all takes place in Liberal Seattle.
What are they teaching?
My only problem with this article is that it all takes place in Liberal Seattle.
What are they teaching?
When I studied counseling in the 1980's "enmeshed" was a negative diagnosis and we would help people learn to be "unenmeshed!" (not really a work, I know)
I really can't imagine choosing to give my kids to strangers for the majority of their childhood.
You don’t even have to stay home. I opened my own practice so I could take them along, and as they grew, they learned real skills because I needed real help. They learned to become adults because they spent time around adults.
If anyone thinks they do not have time to home school, I would advise putting their children in kindergarten and maybe first grade. Once they know how to read, basic number skills, and how to stand in line, all you have to do is give them curriculum to build on that and give real work to them. They can self teach.
We are teaching our children and the preteens in our church from the book ‘The Teenage Years of Jesus Christ’ by Jerry L. Ross. Awesome book. It teaches that biblically there are only three stages of life; child, young adult and older adult. There is not such thing as “teen” years. We have encouraged the students to compare what the Bible says about Jesus at 12 and what the world think of the teens years. They are learning that their teen years are times of putting away childish things(speech, reasoning and thoughts 1 Corinthians 13:11) and they are learning to be adults. It is not a time of extended childhood. I highly recommend it for ANY parent with teens or preteens.
Added to my Amazon wish list, thanks!
You are welcome.
I wondered that too. The parents sound like loonies. Then I realized it is none of my business! Homeschoolers can’t afford to be picky about our allies. So they will look at me funny for the conservative values I teach my kid and I think they’re Eco freak hippy wackoes but the more homeschoolers there are the harder time the government has controlling us.
Good thinking. I’m with you all the way. Like you, teach them to think for themselves.
After the hiatus of the last 30 years, religious folks have persevered and, according to our fears, the publik skoolz have plummeted into the abyss. Our leftist brethern (and sistern) from the ‘60’s now run the system and are the establishment. However, every bird cage eventually fills up with crap if not cleaned by the responsible. So, now, secular types (having fostered the decline all along the way) realize what a mess the system is in and choose to do what elites do all the time - get a better education for their kids (i.e.: Algore and his private uber-elite tutelage).
That's OK - except for one thing. Now that the secularists are getting on board, this will likely attract all the more pressure to obstruct or control HS’ing to the detriment of us all. Worse still, without the principled standards of faith based educators, we may yet see a resurgence of the ‘free’ school crazies that simply raise illiterate and impulse driven monsters on their own without the aid of educational professionals (i.e.: NEA teachers). This may be an opening the establishment has been looking for all along.
No-—there was little rebellion-— only in the places of very strict control-—most boys-—were working by the time they were 14-16. Ben Franklin by the time he was 12. My father was working by the time he was 17 and off on his own. Children matured by the time they were 18-—they never had this extended childhood to 26 or 30-—living in mom’s basement, being supported by their parents. Carnegie started working when he was 13. Mark Twain by the time he was 13 or so also.
My mom was on her own by 17 also. They did not “rebell” they grew up and were adults by 18.
There was childhood, then you were suppose to work and support yourself. People didn’t have time or money to goof off and be non productive. They died.
I have a set of the McGuffey Readers that were used until Dewey. Even though those books kept being revised and taking more Biblical texts out and making it more and more secular during the 19th century—even the books printed in 1920 had lots of Bible verses and all the stories were moral stories based on Biblical morality.
True-—it wasn’t as much Christian as in the beginning but it had God and Lord throughout the book and Right and Wrong (Moral Absolutes) were taught-— the standard from the Ten Commandments (not barney frank).
That is why there was a moral compass in the US and not in Germany during the 30’s—We returned to the pews, they didn’t—they turned to a new god, Hitler. They had adopted the postmodernist—(moral relativism/atheism) was established there earlier since the philosophy was founded there—Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, Fichte-—it was the heart of the atheist movement and took awhile to infiltrate our schools. Since we were not like Germany-—with centralized public schools it took much longer to infiltrate all the small country schools and towns in all the states. That is why the Bible belt was not in the major cities-—those infiltrated first. Jimmy Carter-—forming the DOE completely destroyed all public education. But Dewey took out the word God and Bible verses etc. But lots of small schools never ever got the “new” curricula for decades. That is why the atheist movement took longer here-—we didn’t get the Centralized Prussian school system finalized until Jimmy Carter. We are one generation behind the immoral Europe.
i was waiting for that... there is always somebody who points this out... i teach them... and as i writer, i am quite a stickler... ha! i've been using this informal style for informal writings since i started using email back in the late 80s... it's expedient... quick--but perhaps improper... ;)
i was waiting for that... there is always somebody who points this out... i teach them... and as i writer, i am quite a stickler... ha! i've been using this informal style for informal writings since i started using email back in the late 80s... it's expedient... quick--but perhaps improper... ;)
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