Stark Raving Dad @issysrd
Home educating dad. I create words, podcasts and films that calm the waves of homeschooling doubt. starkravingdadblog.com New Zealand Joined January 2008-
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"Homeschooled children won't develop resilience." I hear this a lot. If you've said it - if you've thought it - are you *sure*? starkravingdadblog.com/does-homeschoo…
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A brand new Life Without School podcast episode is live 🎉 We're examining some very common perceptions of unschooling: - It's like 'unparenting' - It creates lazy children - It involves no rules or structure whatsoever Have a listen 👇 starkravingdadblog.com/episode-24-don…
"How do you know you're teaching your child to a high enough standard?" If you're a homeschooling parent who struggles with this question, here's your path to answering to it. (but before you click, know this - the path is a winding one) starkravingdadblog.com/teaching-your-…
@Austen We home educate, and my wife was a teacher too. Turns out that the more we narrowed in on building drive, motivation and confidence in our kids, the more she needed to *un* learn almost everything she'd studied to join the profession. More on what I mean: starkravingdadblog.com/are-parents-qu…
Homeschool parents: stop worrying about academic subjects. Instead, show your kids how to: Question Communicate Fail Listen Research and reflect Understand others Form an opinion (and the confidence to change it) Build up the child, or *what* they learn will mean nothing.
Children not becoming good students has never been the problem. It’s the fact we decided such a concept even exists. The sun is setting on the factory. When dawn breaks, it will be our differences that shine.
But you *cannot standardise people*, at least not without collateral damage, and we should be shocked that we ever tried. Every person born is one-of-a-kind, and any educational system our children are required to spend their formative years in must respect that at its core.
It’s time to take a good, hard look at what we're filling childhoods with. At the relative value we're attaching to it all 👇
Take a decade of a child’s life to ensure proficiency in things we’ve decided for them, demand their compliance to our schedules and plans, test them relentlessly, tie their self-worth to external feedback, and leave them almost no space to explore any deeper meaning or purpose💁🏼♂️
Every Sunday night, two out of every three working adults fall asleep feeling a heaviness in the pit of their stomach. The feeling that tells them Monday is coming. How did we end up with a statistic like this? Simple 👇
It's often said that homeschooled children won't learn how to go through hard things. They need to accept that bad teacher, bully, stressful test, separation anxiety.. But none of that prepares a child for life. It prepares them to grow up believing their feelings don't matter.
@MattR1689 Awesome, let me know what you think of it!
“No school today, kids?” “Nope, we don’t go to school - this forest is our classroom today!” After a bit more small talk, the person passing us on the track leaned over to me: “You will make sure they’re still learning, won’t you?” Education has gone down a strange path 👇
We folded our map, zipped up our packs, tightened our laces, and - sun on our backs - carried on up the hill together. This was today’s classroom, and we had much to learn from it.
Back on the walking track - among nature, the weather, other people, exercise, and fresh air - we reflected. None of what we were surrounded by matched the accepted definition of the best possible learning space. None of it looked like what learning was supposed to look like.
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