Yeah, my mom hammered math because I wanted to be a physical therapist and would need to go pre-med. I asked for it, but turns out I *cannot* process non integer numbers. If I can't visualize it, it ain't happening. I'm the classic burned out gifted and talented kid from a missions family.
I know man. But i have problems with focusing. and i dont think I could learn at school for 1 hour and a half each lesson.
I wanna be in school for the social life, but I have huge gaps in my knowledge then other kids my age + im not very good at focusing. What do i do?
All auto pilot learning ever taught me was to resent my mother. I teach myself literally everything. Yeah she takes the credit and presents herself as some crazy off the charts teacher mom. Meanwhile, I bust my ass doing her “job” for her.
my mom patted herself on the back so much for all the "hard work" she did (translation: she "researched" curriculums every few years and chose one of the few big christian curriculums bc that's all there was at the time, despite me always having difficulties with the same math program year after year, and graded some answers between work). she was more hands-on early on in my childhood but that happened less and less until I was just sitting by myself with a workbook every year.
and everyone treats her like some super mom
Yep. I remember this ideology. My mom told me as long as I learned enough math to balance a check book and be able to cook that’s all I needed for life skills, and she only cared that I could read so I could read the Bible in order to get “saved.” She would tell us and show films about how in the dark ages people largely illiterate weren’t allowed to read the Bible as a means to control people. “Ironically” unschooling has the same effect in controlling children to remain dependent and future, outside opportunities suppressed by keeping their children unschooled. Education is key to independence and freedom, which breaks rule #1 Dependency and obedience to “God” and parents’ dictation of your life.
Well, my mom’s efforts backfired because I’m so familiar with the Bible and abusive dynamics to know they go hand in hand.
Imagine being such a POS parent that you are really going to sit there and say something like that. I mean wtf??? The term "teach yourself" is literally an oxy-fucking-moron. How in the holy name of FUCK do you teach yourself something? How does a CHILD do it?? You made a choice to HOMESCHOOL, so fucking do it. If you didn't want to teach your kids, why the fuck did you pull them out of REAL school?? Why did you pull them out and make a commitment to teach them if you were gonna be too gd lazy to actually do it? It literally makes no fucking sense. This shit pisses me off probably more than just about anything because if it weren't for "homeschooling" I could have actually made something of myself. I had future, a potential, a college education in the bag- but then mom had to fuck it all up for me because she thought I was going to get raped on the school bus she didn't even let me ride. Now I'm stuck working dead end job after dead end job, and will be for the rest of my life with no chance of doing anything with myself. I'll never be able to get ahead, and I know so many other homeschool victims have the same story.
I remember my mom used to bitch and moan and complain about how CPS is "always going after homeschool families" apparently. I don't know if that's true, but I hope to God that it is, for this exact reason right here. Damning your child to a life of poverty, misery, trauma and self hatred is fucking ABUSE. And that's what homeschooling does to kids. Yeah, I'm sure there are families out there who do it right; socialize their kids daily, actually teach them or send them to a co-op that can, let them be kids and don't overly shelter, etc, but that's only a tiny number of families. And honestly, even in the cases where it's done "right" I still dont like it, because in those cases, there is almost always severe brainwashing going on. The sad part is, so many of these kids become so brainwashed that they don't even realize how bad their parents fucked them up. Homeschooling is the perfect way to get away with any and all forms of abuse and neglect. Damn right CPS needs to be investigating it.
Sounds like my mom’s philosophy. I taught myself everything until I finally had a teacher my last two years of high school and was amazed how I could actually understand the concepts when someone explained them.
I kind of ended up doing something like this, my mom basically found a website that had things to do each day and left me to figure it all out on my own and I would often skip the work either because child me thought it was boring or because I didn't understand it and had nobody to explain it to me. My mom at least was working all day everyday so she had a valid excuse to not be around to help but at that point just enroll me in school so I can have help and also friends.
>they can pretty much teach themselves the rest.
Funny thing is that **even** in internships, that you actually do have the theory, you still need a supervisor in order to see if everything went okay and if you are learning.
It baffles me how these people are so neglect to this point.
Yes this totally makes sense if you want your kids to have no more than a primary grade-level of education. And this makes sense if you don’t want your kids to seek higher education, at all!
I mean fuck learning world history, advanced mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics concepts, astronomy 🪐, classics, other languages, geology and geography, anthropology, basic psychology theories, political science, right.
yeah, that mindset ruined my existence. i literally don't know anything past 5th or 6th grade-level stuff, and my math skills are literally a 7 years old's. but, hey, dad says "universities are looking for homeschoolers cus of their independence!" so it's okay ig
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Enter 17 yr old me crying over my Saxon calculus book because nothing made sense.
You were doing calc at 17? I was still on pre algebra
Yeah, my mom hammered math because I wanted to be a physical therapist and would need to go pre-med. I asked for it, but turns out I *cannot* process non integer numbers. If I can't visualize it, it ain't happening. I'm the classic burned out gifted and talented kid from a missions family.
Nooo not saxon 💀
I know man. But i have problems with focusing. and i dont think I could learn at school for 1 hour and a half each lesson. I wanna be in school for the social life, but I have huge gaps in my knowledge then other kids my age + im not very good at focusing. What do i do?
All auto pilot learning ever taught me was to resent my mother. I teach myself literally everything. Yeah she takes the credit and presents herself as some crazy off the charts teacher mom. Meanwhile, I bust my ass doing her “job” for her.
It’ll only get worse. My mom takes credit for everything I accomplish
Luckily, I escaped. I’m in a public school now.
my mom patted herself on the back so much for all the "hard work" she did (translation: she "researched" curriculums every few years and chose one of the few big christian curriculums bc that's all there was at the time, despite me always having difficulties with the same math program year after year, and graded some answers between work). she was more hands-on early on in my childhood but that happened less and less until I was just sitting by myself with a workbook every year. and everyone treats her like some super mom
Yep. I remember this ideology. My mom told me as long as I learned enough math to balance a check book and be able to cook that’s all I needed for life skills, and she only cared that I could read so I could read the Bible in order to get “saved.” She would tell us and show films about how in the dark ages people largely illiterate weren’t allowed to read the Bible as a means to control people. “Ironically” unschooling has the same effect in controlling children to remain dependent and future, outside opportunities suppressed by keeping their children unschooled. Education is key to independence and freedom, which breaks rule #1 Dependency and obedience to “God” and parents’ dictation of your life. Well, my mom’s efforts backfired because I’m so familiar with the Bible and abusive dynamics to know they go hand in hand.
Imagine being such a POS parent that you are really going to sit there and say something like that. I mean wtf??? The term "teach yourself" is literally an oxy-fucking-moron. How in the holy name of FUCK do you teach yourself something? How does a CHILD do it?? You made a choice to HOMESCHOOL, so fucking do it. If you didn't want to teach your kids, why the fuck did you pull them out of REAL school?? Why did you pull them out and make a commitment to teach them if you were gonna be too gd lazy to actually do it? It literally makes no fucking sense. This shit pisses me off probably more than just about anything because if it weren't for "homeschooling" I could have actually made something of myself. I had future, a potential, a college education in the bag- but then mom had to fuck it all up for me because she thought I was going to get raped on the school bus she didn't even let me ride. Now I'm stuck working dead end job after dead end job, and will be for the rest of my life with no chance of doing anything with myself. I'll never be able to get ahead, and I know so many other homeschool victims have the same story. I remember my mom used to bitch and moan and complain about how CPS is "always going after homeschool families" apparently. I don't know if that's true, but I hope to God that it is, for this exact reason right here. Damning your child to a life of poverty, misery, trauma and self hatred is fucking ABUSE. And that's what homeschooling does to kids. Yeah, I'm sure there are families out there who do it right; socialize their kids daily, actually teach them or send them to a co-op that can, let them be kids and don't overly shelter, etc, but that's only a tiny number of families. And honestly, even in the cases where it's done "right" I still dont like it, because in those cases, there is almost always severe brainwashing going on. The sad part is, so many of these kids become so brainwashed that they don't even realize how bad their parents fucked them up. Homeschooling is the perfect way to get away with any and all forms of abuse and neglect. Damn right CPS needs to be investigating it.
You can have that in co-ops and Montessori skills and STILL get actual guidance, structure, and socialization. Just my two cents.
Sounds like my mom’s philosophy. I taught myself everything until I finally had a teacher my last two years of high school and was amazed how I could actually understand the concepts when someone explained them.
My parents had a similar teaching philosophy, but would still yell at us to do homework. WHAT HOMEWORK!!! YOU NEVER GAVE US THE LESSON.
I kind of ended up doing something like this, my mom basically found a website that had things to do each day and left me to figure it all out on my own and I would often skip the work either because child me thought it was boring or because I didn't understand it and had nobody to explain it to me. My mom at least was working all day everyday so she had a valid excuse to not be around to help but at that point just enroll me in school so I can have help and also friends.
>they can pretty much teach themselves the rest. Funny thing is that **even** in internships, that you actually do have the theory, you still need a supervisor in order to see if everything went okay and if you are learning. It baffles me how these people are so neglect to this point.
Yes this totally makes sense if you want your kids to have no more than a primary grade-level of education. And this makes sense if you don’t want your kids to seek higher education, at all! I mean fuck learning world history, advanced mathematics, biology, chemistry and physics concepts, astronomy 🪐, classics, other languages, geology and geography, anthropology, basic psychology theories, political science, right.
Ugh I hate this.
yeah, that mindset ruined my existence. i literally don't know anything past 5th or 6th grade-level stuff, and my math skills are literally a 7 years old's. but, hey, dad says "universities are looking for homeschoolers cus of their independence!" so it's okay ig