Sunday, December 22, 2019

Week 38

When you go looking for something, you tend to just see that or similar things only = selective attention, I guess. For me, that is homeschooling :-). There were 2 pieces of news that really helped strengthen my belief - 1) a group of boys from an elite school discussing ways to rate and torture their girl classmates before being found out and acted upon, and 2) the experiences of a young girl who has moved countries and has not been accepted at school, bullied and hurt by her classmates, whose parents have not intervened even after being implored.
Our kids need resilience in the face of an "aggressive" society, and part of my decision to slow them down is also to help them enjoy life in the longer run and not become adrenaline-junkies. Homeschooling has helped quite a bit in that, even though the pressure on all the adults around is immense. Routine questioning around "impact on their future" cannot be answered with confidence that does not sound like bravado in large parts.

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