When Michaeleen Doucleff met parents from around the world, she encountered millennia-old methods of raising good kids that made American parenting seem bizarre and ineffective.
I had almost exactly the same reaction. The article is pretty careful not to advocate for universal child care or improving funding for public schools, since that would be communism and this is The Atlantic.
Americans are obsessed with finding the perfect way to raise their kids (or discipline themselves via self-help) because our society is collapsing and it seems like the path to success is narrowing to a thread. Still, there are some useful tips in this article, like, for example, don’t abuse your kids.
I’ve been homeschooling my kids since September, spending a shitload of time learning alongside them, and it’s honestly been—pleasant? It’s been nice getting to know them better and in some ways it’s a lot less stressful than school. There’s no grades or tests and I don’t have to make conversation with dickhead parents I can’t stand when I pick my kids up. The only major issue is isolation as well as my fear that the state won’t recognize that we have actually been learning for these past few months.
My wife is an RN and my family can afford it, which makes it possible. At the moment we can’t socialize at all because the kids of even lib parents can’t be depended on to
wear their fucking masks or refrain from touching each other. Once the pandemic ends, if it ever does, we plan to send our kids back to school / prison, but now that we know what homeschooling is like we don’t think we’ll have too many issues if our kids decide that they prefer it. Our school also lets some crazy Christian kids do half homeschool / half “normal” school so we might also try that.
I had almost exactly the same reaction. The article is pretty careful not to advocate for universal child care or improving funding for public schools, since that would be communism and this is The Atlantic.
Americans are obsessed with finding the perfect way to raise their kids (or discipline themselves via self-help) because our society is collapsing and it seems like the path to success is narrowing to a thread. Still, there are some useful tips in this article, like, for example, don’t abuse your kids.
I’ve been homeschooling my kids since September, spending a shitload of time learning alongside them, and it’s honestly been—pleasant? It’s been nice getting to know them better and in some ways it’s a lot less stressful than school. There’s no grades or tests and I don’t have to make conversation with dickhead parents I can’t stand when I pick my kids up. The only major issue is isolation as well as my fear that the state won’t recognize that we have actually been learning for these past few months.
deleted by creator
My wife is an RN and my family can afford it, which makes it possible. At the moment we can’t socialize at all because the kids of even lib parents can’t be depended on to wear their fucking masks or refrain from touching each other. Once the pandemic ends, if it ever does, we plan to send our kids back to school / prison, but now that we know what homeschooling is like we don’t think we’ll have too many issues if our kids decide that they prefer it. Our school also lets some crazy Christian kids do half homeschool / half “normal” school so we might also try that.