There is definitely an extreme that goes too far. Balance is needed here.
There’s a group of people homeschooling their kids doing “radical unschooling” where they believe they don’t need to be instructed or taught anything, that they will learn reading and math and all of that naturally in life. They don’t impose any bedtimes or screen limits and thus their children are on a screen 90% of the waking day and on a bad sleep schedule that is misaligned from all their peers
These people are, in my opinion, abusing and neglecting their children and making bad excuses for being lazy.
There is definitely an extreme that goes too far. Balance is needed here.
There’s a group of people homeschooling their kids doing “radical unschooling” where they believe they don’t need to be instructed or taught anything, that they will learn reading and math and all of that naturally in life. They don’t impose any bedtimes or screen limits and thus their children are on a screen 90% of the waking day and on a bad sleep schedule that is misaligned from all their peers
These people are, in my opinion, abusing and neglecting their children and making bad excuses for being lazy.
Yeah those people are fucking idiots. Children don't naturally skill up as they age like a fucking video game.
I meet an unschooled kid once, he was 14 and illiterate and literally just played Minecraft all day.
Seriously, unschooling just strikes me as a progressive sounding way to frame embracing "iPad child syndrome".
Agreed but that's definitely not what gentle parenting is about