Judgy post

[karinothing]

I have seen multiple people on FB talk about homeschooling their kids. Except the kids like 2-4 years old. I do not really consider anything before kinder home schooling

[waterchurch]

Isn't that just parenting? Lol.

[Queen Mamadala]

I tend to roll my eyes at mentions of "homeschooling" kids that haven't entered Kinder yet.

[suzubell]

Um, that's ridiculous. Judge away.

[lilac05]

The ones I've seen homeschooling preschoolers are trying to do fairly rigid curriculums, too. Very focused on academics which, IMO, is the LEAST important part of preschool.

[cinco]

I guess that means I homeschool during the Summer.

[auntie]

OMG YES!!!

I totally believe parents are a child's first teachers but this makes me crazy.

The whole point of a preschool experience is to help prepare the child to be a student- to separate easily from parents, to learn to take direction from an adult who isn't mommy, to learn to be part of a learning community where you are no more important than any other child in the group and to learn to socialize in appropriate and expected ways. You kind of can't accomplish those goals in-house.

[anna7602]

I am totally running a language school for DS out of my house and when I get subsidies from the French government to fund it, then who will be judging?

[kershnic]

But but but I'm homeschooling nap time right now!

[whitemerlot]

Lmao. I have a lot of friends that say they homeschool their 2 and 3 year olds. It is insane.

[scribellesam]

Yes, my favorite Facebook friend to hate-follow is "unschooling" her 3yo. She keeps talking about how much trouble he's having with reading. "I think he might have dyslexia." No, dummy, he's three. He's not supposed to be reading yet.

[Deleted]

FFS.

I threw DD some magnetic letters today to put on her white board. I called them out and had her practice "spelling" while I was on the treadmill.

#homeschoolmadeeasy #multitaskingmartyr #winningathomeschoolpreschool.

[anna7602]

Sept 28, 2015 20:49:16 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

Yes, my favorite Facebook friend to hate-follow is "unschooling" her 3yo. She keeps talking about how much trouble he's having with reading. "I think he might have dyslexia." No, dummy, he's three. He's not supposed to be reading yet.

How can you keep yourself from egging her on? I'd be so tempted to respond with things like, "you really should get him evaluated!" 

[moonpie]

Yes, yes, yes.

I had a friend post on facebook that they loved homeschooling because they got to watch the moon with their kids last night.

Except she has 3 under 4. I had multiple friends post about watching the moon with their kids and those kids are *gasp* in actual preschool/school. I had no idea that only homeschooled kids could stay up and watch a rare lunar event with their parents.

[Deleted]

I'm homeschooling right now then. Ethan is learning Physics in his swing.

[Willis Jackson]

I homeschool my cat.

It's really important to us.

[scribellesam]

Sept 28, 2015 20:50:29 GMT -5 anna7602 said:

Sept 28, 2015 20:49:16 GMT -5 scribellesam said:

Yes, my favorite Facebook friend to hate-follow is "unschooling" her 3yo. She keeps talking about how much trouble he's having with reading. "I think he might have dyslexia." No, dummy, he's three. He's not supposed to be reading yet.

How can you keep yourself from egging her on? I'd be so tempted to respond with things like, "you really should get him evaluated!" 

Shes an anti-vaxxer who doesn't trust medical professionals; I think she bases all her many diagnoses for this poor kid on Dr Google. Maybe I could take a different approach: "have you tried essential oils? I'm sure they could clear that right up."

[pugz]

non-religious homeschooling is becoming common in my area. There are several non-religious preschool co-ops. They are full of crunchy moms for the most part. I mean 2 thumbs up for keeping your non-vaxxed kids out of my kid's classroom, but when they go on and on about how they are so glad they are giving their kids a chance to learn through play because they are in the co-op I'm like, uh, did you not do your research and realize that there are TONS of play based preschools in this area?

I think part of their reasoning is that there are not a lot of non-religious preschool options in our area. There are some waldorf programs and montessori programs but they are $$$ so I guess they figure they can do it cheaper themselves? I don't know.

[Willis Jackson]

Sept 28, 2015 21:12:42 GMT -5 @vicmo said:

Sept 28, 2015 21:09:26 GMT -5 Willis Jackson said:

I homeschool my cat.

It's really important to us.

I hear your cat is struggling with learning to read. That must be hard for you.

It is. I think she might be depressed, actually. She's been sleeping about 23.5 hours a day. I'm looking into essential oils.

[rugbywife]

I totally homeschool my almost 18 month old. We have been studying farm animals for MONTHS and she still doesn't know all of them.

[starlily]

Sept 28, 2015 20:39:40 GMT -5 karinothing said:

I have seen multiple people on FB talk about homeschooling their kids. Except the kids like 2-4 years old. I do not really consider anything before kinder home schooling

My brother keeps saying that they're "homeschooling" their 4/5yo and it drives me nuts. They're not homeschooling. They are opting not to send him to pre-school.

[alexis]

I have a lot of people on my FB that post about homeschooling their young children. I always roll my eyes. They all plan to continue homeschooling but still.

My favorite was when one posted a picture of her sewing with her four year old along with a addition caption about homeschooling. Yeah, all parents teach their kids stuff. That's not homeschooling.

I worry about some of their children's educations when they are actually being homeschooled.

[DarcyLongfellow]

Not to mention the fact that actually homeschooling a preschooler would SUCK. They are defiant and hate to sit still. When DD1 was 3 we had epic fights over things like changing out of her pajamas. Just imagining me attempting to force her to sit and learn her letters is giving me hives.

[redheadk]

My favorite is the one on my feed who spent a ton of time researching homeschool curriculum for her 3-year-old before deciding on a free online "curriculum" that isn't any type of thought-out, cohesive curriculum at all. It's just random activities. Which, fine, but don't act like a list of random activities that someone compiled using Pinterest and Mailbox magazine is actual legit curriculum. It's just ideas of random things to do with your kid.

[imojoebunny]

I know people who home schooled for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. They pretty much do what the preschools do, teach letters, numbers, shapes, pre-reading manipulative math, ect.. Pre-K and Kindergarten are free and full day here, but not required, so just "parenting" your child until !st grade, isn't really a thing. Kids are expected to have a lot of knowledge when they start 1st grade. My son has been in 1st grade for 2 months, and is expected to read pretty fluently. He reads smallish chapter books. His math is simple addition and things like being able to put random numbers in order to make the smallest/largest number, up to 4 digit numbers.

The people I know do it because they need a flexible schedule for traveling, not for religious reasons.

[SJ]

I "unschool" my toddler on the weekends.

[ssmjlm]

I have a sorority sister that told me she homeschools b/c she didn't want to have to get up to take her son to school and wake up his siblings. Uh whut?

Preschool homeschool is a joke. Although I feel for the kids. They need some socialization and to learn from a non-parent before they hit elementary school.

[karinothing]

Sept 29, 2015 7:47:13 GMT -5 imojoebunny said:

I know people who home schooled for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. They pretty much do what the preschools do, teach letters, numbers, shapes, pre-reading manipulative math, ect.. Pre-K and Kindergarten are free and full day here, but not required, so just "parenting" your child until !st grade, isn't really a thing. Kids are expected to have a lot of knowledge when they start 1st grade. My son has been in 1st grade for 2 months, and is expected to read pretty fluently. He reads smallish chapter books. His math is simple addition and things like being able to put random numbers in order to make the smallest/largest number, up to 4 digit numbers.

The people I know do it because they need a flexible schedule for traveling, not for religious reasons.

Homeschooling kindergarten is a thing. Homeschooling a 2 year old? Come on.

[DarcyLongfellow]

Sept 29, 2015 7:58:45 GMT -5 ssmjlm said:

I have a sorority sister that told me she homeschools b/c she didn't want to have to get up to take her son to school and wake up his siblings. Uh whut?

For some reason this is cracking me up. I mean, I'm pretty friggin lazy and I hate to get up in the mornings. But do you know what's harder and way more work than waking your kid up to get him to school? Having to entertain him all day.

[Deleted]

They must mean homeschooling in lieu of preschool? There are many preschools that start at 2.