Hey 👋
Of course I'm going to chime in! 🤣
There is an overwhelming exodus out of the government school system. Daily, people are asking questions about #homeschooling and #unschooling which I think is fantastic for the kids. They are sooo lucky their parents can see an opportunity to do better things with that precious time as a child. ✨
In all of this, over the 8 (almost 9) years I've home educated, the most common sentiment for families leaving the school system is "I wish we did it sooner." 🫶
Each family operates differently and some might just not be able to make it work. It does take a lot of sacrifice as one parent will need to be around a lot of the time which may result in a one income home or the second income part time or weird hours.🧡
The only really negative experiences I've heard about tend to be from people who had parents who neglected them and didn't offer any educational experiences or people whose parents may have had significant and likely untreated/unmanaged mental health issues. 💜
What I like to ask people is, in your adult life, how much do you use that you actually learned in school? 😅
Usually, only teachers use the stuff they learned in school. Most office positions need the skill of LEARNING. And learn you tend to do on the job. School most often erodes the LOVE OF LEARNING. Whereas unschooling encourages children to follow their interests and go deep. 🥰
We teach our children that it doesn't matter if you change course when you're an adult. The most important skill is knowing how to learn and enjoy the process. 💫
Some books on the topic I've read / listened to that are fantastic are:
Hold on to your Kids - Gabor Mate
Free to Learn - Peter Gray
Weapons of Mass Instruction - John Taylor Gatto
My end point is, school takes 5-8 hours a day, five days a week, 40 ish weeks of the year for 12 years of their lives. So they can learn stuff they could learn in 10 minutes a day while they are small up to an hour or two a day as they are older (or on the job as an adult). And this time is essentially taken from the parents, often contributing to the breaking down of society as kids need their parents... Now days parents are constantly working. Kids are raising each other and it's a bit like Lord of the Flies. In much of the developed world youth bullying and suicide is at all time highs. 😭😭😭
I prefer to self custody my children's education & keep this valuable, precious time with them for myself rather than leave them in the custody of strangers who are trying to teach 10-30 kids in a classroom where it's set up that less than 10% will actually thrive. 💛💛💛
It's the best 💯
So much fun seeing the world with kids 😊😍
It's the end of the day for me.
Here's a picture from earlier, just before the storm arrived .🤩
GN. ✨💫🌙 
I find it hilarious when I see people driving in their car wearing them 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️😂😅🤣
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They grow too fast. I'm grateful mine stay home with me every day. I gained so much time by choosing #unschooling and #worldschooling 🥰 nostr:note1lsmprwyunn5esp65gg0sc52tfcmps3crym67tkr0kdssvwa2wg8sg7srja
We just received a short hail storm ⛈️
The kids were fascinated. Trying to catch little hail stones doesn't work that well. They melt. 😂
It's over the ocean now. We'll probably have clear skies again soon. 🤩 
Same. I'm happiest when it lowest. More opportunity to stack more sats 😂
I just asked my miss 2 for a chip. She says "No. You working."
Boo. No Doritos for me. 😅
Part of why I love it here. It feels more free. No paid ads and suggested content to wade through. And the discussion on choosing our own algorithms is exciting to me. I like that in 2024 I can follow hashtags in #Damus and I like the choice of feed views in #primal 🙌🤩 nostr:note1gcyt9a4ntrknzjdlasd4u7yay4qmh4mjklxgxq0kmt79fxger4tsc774pn
😂😅🤣 I'm pretty sure #nostriches been asking a while now 😅🤣 nostr:note1nlcg8rv2gwfx0deezajyn57k6nnun2z0c47pkhvfqfjh4qxam3gsp8elw0
Didn't get that far last time but will try again. Now I finally have energy again, I don't want to waste any of it on the old stuff 😃
GM at midday 😅🤷♀️
I'm doing my part to try and encourage meta people to move to #nostr. I'm just going to keep trying. Wish me luck #grownostr.
Today is nice. We had so much rain last night. I was quite happy as we are on tank water & we have teenagers - teenagers + tank water is not fun - even "short" showers are long 😂
The sun is now shining but can't really see the island at the moment. I'll try to add a photo later. 😊 
Today was chill. I didn't spend too many sats #zapping everyone today. 😅
I'm going to bed early because it's rainy and I have good books to read.
GN #nostriches 🌙✨💫 