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If You Get Mixed Signals, It’s a ‘No’
Do yourself a favour and move on to a ‘Hell Yes!’
Homeschooling and online teaching offered an unwanted yet eye-opening perspective for me this year; for sure, it’s been a hell of a ride, and it taught us a lot about our teaching skills as a parent, our patience under enhanced stress levels and about the way how our kids deal with problems on their own.
To me, it also showed an even more important realisation: the things that really matter in life should be taught at school from an early age, and they are not.
When solving equations and working ourselves through the Pythagorean theorem or sitting down to memorise entire chapters of texts, I couldn’t stop thinking about how many useless things kids need to cram into their heads — instead of learning about more interesting and important topics.
We say that life doesn’t come with a user manual and we need to learn through our experience — growing and failing, succeeding and struggling. But it’s not entirely true. In a lot of cases the knowledge and experience are already there, we already lived it and experienced it, we just don’t find the ways to transmit them to our kids. In schools, kids learn about the anatomy of their bodies but they don’t learn about consent. They learn about the different species and races but topics of equality and racism are not…
