Paulitee
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To everyone saying “breastfeeding is free”:
I used to say that, too. I was humbled real quick.
solé@layxsnv
🤣🤣 NO KIDS FOR ME 70 dollars for some milk is insane 🤣
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@Bluepluto10 @PauliDeeTee @julieheglund Paulitee never worked silly. She's of the trump guzzling boomer kind. She believes women should be subservient to men and that her only job in this world was to raise her son's and raise her daughter's to have sons 🥺
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@thekitenubber @julieheglund Like 70 percent of women on social media claim they cannot breastfeed due to medical problems. It’s much rarer than everyone thinks but mostly it’s a cop out. I mean it’s up to the woman but everyone claims to be the 2% tha actually can’t
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@homemakinghunny Well please know it’s very very painful and if it needs to be trimmed consider taking her to urgent aid or the pediatrician where they can maybe numb it. Poor thing.
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@PauliDeeTee Definitely not planning on removing it just wanting to trim it back so it doesn’t get caught on something and rip and hurt her further.
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How do you help and handle yourself and the kid when your kid FLIPS OUT when they get hurt?? Like will cry for like over an hour/throw herself around/screams.
She has a dead toenail from getting her toe squished under a door last week and I need to clip the nail off but it’s still attached to the skin a bit. She just kicks and screams as soon as I even try to touch it.
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@LiLa__lee18 It’s weird you never moved in at life. Extend g adolescence into your 30s 40s and beyond is off putting. It makes you weird.
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It’s no secret I love Disney.
That being said, I really don’t understand why adults who enjoy Disney get so much ridicule.
Is there an age cutoff for having fun? Once I hit adulthood was I supposed to hate rides and amusement parks?
Do most people realize that many of the rides are thrill rides and not geared towards small children?
I had a blast at Disney as a child, as a mother with my children, and now as an adult.
For the people who care so deeply about this, why? It’s harmless fun.
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@RichJWidmann Disney Adults are the most pathetic crop of humans. Reeks of immaturity and incompetence.
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@meowingabyss Yeah completely diaper free even at night 2 weeks before his second birthday
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Don't let people on here fool you about how early your kid should be toilet training btw- most kids aren't doing it in any semblance of independence until they're around 3yo
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@DVanheirseele @JeffreyBrower1 lol go to a normal college and meet some education majors. They will be hands down the dumbest people on campus
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@JeffreyBrower1 Exactly. Last I checked, teachers have to go to school for at least 4 years, then generally have to do online/nights to get their masters if they want to go up on the wage scale. Yet anybody can somehow homeschool their children. Make it make sense...
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Is anyone else skeptical of homeschooling? Particularly when you see people posting about homeschooling their children and they use "loose" instead of "lose" several times in one sentence? So, it wasn't a typo... I just don't understand how homeschooling is allowed to be a thing.
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@DVanheirseele My degree is in math. My kids don’t have my math talent but they’re far better read than I was at that age and have time to develop their own interests and there are times when they know more than I do depending on the topic. Raising autodidacts sorrynotsorry
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@FrailSkeleton @PetitReveVif So you don’t want people without access to large sums of money to put on hold for months to be able to educate their children the same as wealthier people
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@PetitReveVif I would support it more if it worked like, submit materials purchased for reimbursement, and that could easily be contracted out to a third party like businesses do
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@HillcrestCardCo I have a degree in mathematics and this question is dumb and rote memorization makes you faster at higher level math
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Americans think they can homeschool their kids even though they have no number sense and thus get completely confused by elementary math. The fact that you don't understand elementary math anymore shows the weakness of educating children through rote memorization.
Travis Akers 🇺🇸@travisakers
This is stupid. Just add the damn numbers or memorize it. What are we even doing?
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@shagbark_hick Except abused kids are in public school and go completely unnoticed ther entire lives. What a straw man
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Say what you will about public schooling, but at a minimum, at a public school there is a process by which abused children can appeal to outside parties.
When it comes to families homeschooling on isolated estates, you really never know what's actually going on out there.
Again, I'm not "anti-homeschooling" per se, but these are the kinds of things that homeschooling advocates are going to have to have a serious answer for as homeschooling continues to grow in popularity.
Kathryn Lea@Kathryn_Lea
@DassCoool @LexLiberty76 @shagbark_hick I experienced violence every day I was homeschooled because my parents beat the shit out of me for hours. I learned pain equals love and endured years of abusive relationships because of it. And I couldn't even get away from it for an hour. No one to tell. Fuck homeschooling.
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@JillFilipovic I absolutely object to all of those things because it implies that the government can control how I raise my children instead of me.
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Right, if homeschooling is actually super high quality, then homeschooling families should not object to being evaluated, tested, and checked-in-on to make sure their kids are actually learning.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
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@shagbark_hick Leave my kids alone weirdo. You don’t have enforcement powers over my parenting and I’m not interested in your opinions.
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A lot of people commenting on this are reminding me that the public school system produces functionally illiterate students at high rates.
I acknowledge that; the situation is grim.
But failures within public schooling ought not in and of themselves excuse methods of homeschooling that are also failures. It's reasonable to hope that all children receive a robust education, at home or at school, and it's furthermore reasonable to aim for methods of attaining this end without cynically assuming all is lost, adopting a 'bunker mentality,' etc.
Those with a stake in homeschooling need to be serious about staring straight at the "worst case" scenarios of homeschooling and discerning how they can be avoided. There really are a distressingly large number of "homeschooling failures" out there; some are truly deplorable.
If the response to the possibility of neglectful or insufficient homeschooling is "rah rah, homeschooling rules, public school drools," etc etc, that is not a serious response.
The fact is, homeschooling does not actually "solve" the problems posed by failing public schools. Just as surely as homeschooling can offer some families a valid path to a better education, it can just as surely open the door to ever higher levels of dysfunction and educational failure.
So I don't believe it's a perfect tempest that should be exempted from all criticism.
Finally, as homeschooling becomes more popular, the cases of failure will very likely increase in number. And from there, the government will eventually be forced to either formally abandon its mandate to ensure all children receive an education -- or it'll crack down on homeschooling heavily.
The latter is obviously more likely; I might even consider it an eventuality at this stage. Make of that what you will; homeschooling freedom will probably become a major cultural battleground within the next decade.
𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗@shagbark_hick
Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all. I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem. While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives. My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition. Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
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@FrMatthewLC @shagbark_hick How about they’re my kids and stay out of it. What happens when the government says I’m violating the law for not teaching my kindergartener sex ed and lgbtq history like in public school? I’ll choose what my kids learn, thanks.
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I'm with you. I would support standardized math and English testing every 2 years or something.
Also, offer parents support as a first option before forcing public school. A teacher coming to help for a day a few times a year or zoom course on homeschooling costs less & parents are likely more amenable to (Alberta, Canada does this to great success).
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Look, pro-homeschooling people are piling on this guy but he's not wrong at all.
I know of families who are straight-up failing to teach their children beyond a 2nd-grade education. Like 16-year-old kids who don't know what the Capital of the US is, have never heard of Toronto, and could not perform a basic algebra problem.
While it's true that there are many excellent homeschooling families whose instruction far exceeds that of any public school, the fact is that the American system of "school your kids however you want" does also yield a lot of severely stunted kids who get stuck playing "catch-up" for the rest of their lives.
My wife was homeschooled, we might homeschool, I'm not averse to the practice per se, but it's a fact that there's a whole world of multi-generational homeschoolers who are not and will not rise above a 2nd or 3rd grade education level by their own volition.
Should the state intervene in these cases? I dunno, the answer to the question is not as "easy" as many make it out to be. The idea of barely getting through 'Mary Had a Little Lamb' at the age of 16 should be appalling, and it IS happening in some American homeschooler families.
Just Jim@JimsTweets
Do Homeschool kids just like, not have to take tests or exams or get grades? How does the government know if the child is actually getting an education and not just like, being neglected
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@abbythelibb_ @Tiff_Germain Maybe don’t tell people how to raise their children. You are so indoctrinated into the public school mindset you think people must re-create it at home and you’re trying to control what information must be taught. Hard pass. Mind your own business
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My issue is not that these subjects aren't taught at every single level. I have no idea what level her kids are. It's that those subjects were planned and then **forgotten** for two months. As my post says, I have no issue with intentionally creating and following a plan that works for your homeschool.
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I'm a homeschooled homeschooling enthusiast, and this isn't ok. Take an intentional break from one subject to focus on another? Great. Take a mental health day off a subject the student is struggling in to relieve the tension and reset? Great. Spread out summer break throughout the year so you can use it when it makes the most sense for your family? Great.
But **forgetting** two whole subjects for two whole months and then posting about it online like it's cute and relatable is not okay. Are we trying to drive homeschooling standards as low as public school standards? As long as they beat us in the race to the bottom, we've done right by our kids? Are we trying to convince lawmakers to push intrusive regulations? What are we doing here, people?
Homeschooling should be about giving your kids the best education you can. Not whatever this is.
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@abbythelibb_ What an obnoxious post by you. Every parent doesnt spend $600 on premade curriculum or school on a public school schedule & guess what… thats ok. You have a public school mindset still and I dont have to re-create public school at home. Don’t tell people how to raise their kids
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@ladysparrow_ I just… stopped using diapers. And then I reached a point where I was like oh what have I done he’s too little and not smart enough and he will never understand (I was cleaning poop and pee all day for 9 days). And then… it clicked. And he was potty trained. Like he just got it
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I don’t know why anyone is ever in a rush to potty train. It’s endless work for you because it takes years for them to get out of wetting themselves or their beds or the house. Better to have the diaper catch it for as long as possible. Maybe there’s kids that can do it younger but that has not been my experience. I give up. Also I just cleaned up so much poop off the floors and walls so maybe this is coming from that a bit.
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@shagbark_hick lol as if public schools produce literate people? Nah
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