Did you know that homeschooling is only good for farmers? Me neither! I also never realized that farming was something to look down upon (because we need it to survive and all), but wrong again. I heard it straight from the mouth (or keyboard) of someone who knows better than we do.
So tune in to my YouTube channel today to hear some other “sound” wisdom of someone in the know…and to hear an extensive list of famous homeschoolers who were/are not farmers.
Go figure.
I never post videos on Saturdays, but today’s going to be different.
After stewing over NPR’s “How Should We Regulate Homeschooling” podcast all day yesterday (after many, many people sent it to me), I finally caved in at 12:39am and “let my feelings out” via a video.
To sum up my mood during the recording, four words bring it together nicely – I HAVE HAD ENOUGH.
If you would ask five different people what they need to let go of in their homeschool, you’d likely get five different answers. What I’ve discovered, however, is that the reasons usually have one common root.
To find out what it is, watch the video. 🙂
Happy New Year, everyone! I’m so glad 2019 is over. 😭
Today on my channel I shared a video from the Patreon archives: the first in a series about the Hegelian Dialectic and Compulsory Schooling.
If you aren’t sure what the Hegelian Dialectic is, simply put, think of problem-reaction-solution.
There is so much more behind schooling than the ruse of education. Schooling was/is simply a means to a pre-planned end.
Have a great first day of 2020. 🙂
Today’s video is different from my others. In honor of the new year, this video is more like a therapy session, a recap of what has probably been the hardest year my family and I have ever experienced.
Here’s to praying for a much better 2020. 🙏
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas! It went by so quickly.
Time for me to get back to the nitty gritty and ruffle some feathers. 🤷♀️ I’ve been thinking a lot about the attitude people have when they see kids that aren’t in school, but should be.
It’s almost an automatic assumption that they must be up to no good, but I’ve got a different take.
Looks like I finally figured out how school is the “real world.” 🤔
Do the words “Operation Mockingbird” and “Smith-Mundt Modernization Act” mean anything to you?
They should.
They happen to be the two reasons you should never trust mainstream media (or most movies and documentaries) for information, whether for homeschooling or life, in general.
If this is new to you, and you’re ready for a rabbit hole, watch my latest video.
“Critical thinking” is one of the education system’s favorite buzz phrases, particularly since the introduction of Common Core. Ironic, isn’t it?
The problem is, the more we see critical thinking mentioned, the less we see evidence of its use in society. Why?? Well, the answer to that is simple. The education system does NOT teach critical thinking, despite its claims, and there’s a reason for that.
Today I published another video from the Patreon archives.
Educating your kids at home just isn’t as easy as it once was. Sure, there are tons of resources of available, but there is also an ever increasing amount of disinformation out there, as well.
(Btw, there’s a difference between misinformation and disinformation. Misinformation is accidental. Disinformation is intentional.)
On top of disinformation, we’ve got censorship. We’re living in a real life version of 1984.
This makes life as not only a homeschool parent, but any parent, extremely difficult.
