Q&A Episode 6: All About Homeschool (May 14, 2018)

[@nikitamhatre4884]

I wish we could homeschool in India too. But here in India homeschool=joke. People use children grading system to show off how brilliant their child is. Here in India schools are all about memorising things. Practicals and extracurriculars are next to nothing. There's so much pressure on children to get good marks. Hope our system and society changes someday.

[@brittanyvessels]

Love this! I have been homeschooling my now 8 year old son since he was 4 and we are also adopting a little girl from India that we will also homeschool. :-)

[@iamash3309]

I strongly believe home schooling is important. I have seen like 90% of the parents who thinks their children learn everything from school. They don't even bother to teach respect or be good or something. The only time they get together is after they are finished with school and they spend it eating or watching tv or playing on their own mobile.I would definitely go with hime schooling

[@Marypal]

I got to know different perspective of schooling which is so profound. & crisp. You set an example as one of exceptional parents that is rare to come across nowadays. Keep rocking.

[@jaciweishaar4285]

Love this. Thank you! Shared it!

[@veneerasewdass749]

HI MIKE & MEL. JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF YOU ASKED U KIDS , WHEN THEY GROW UP WHAT CAREERS THEY WOULD LOVE TO CHOOSE, OR BECOME ,LIKE TO FOLLOW, PASSIONATE OFF . OR BY EDUCATING THE KIDS FOR NOW THEN LITTLE LATER WOULD U HELP THE KIDS TO CHOOSE THERE CAREERS PART.

[@varshab6276]

Thank you guys for answering me...love from me to you and your kids 👍👍

[@deysimelendez2936]

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[@SixerIverson04]

Woohoo! 1st!

[@lese91]

I enjoy hearing your perspective and appreciate the extensive thought and care you’ve put into the idea but I think the main thing homeschooled kids miss is the interaction with those who have a different perspective from their family. This is not something they can acquire from church interactions, where families have the same world-view, however, they may be getting a taste of that through soccer (unless of course the soccer team is made up of children from your church/religion). This was something I even had to deal with entering public college after attending a private religious school k-12 and will be even more pronounced in your children. I still think y’all are so great but I feel like y’all are trying to micromanage the influences in your children’s lives to the extreme, of course with loving intentions. Perhaps this is okay when your kids are very young, but it seems like it might be unhealthy as they approach adolescence. I hope my comment didn’t come off as rude in any way, just offering my own experiences up for consideration! Your family is so beautiful and I continue to wish y’all health and happiness.

[@jazzi0221]

Hi Janie, I have to disagree with you. Micromananging= parenting there is not one without the other. They are the ones that invest in their children, birthed/adopted their children. I think it is very wise to not follow the gradient just so your child will turn out like all the others. Their children will be more able to adapt to their environments because they aren't stuck in a classroom for 8 hours a day. I was homeschooled my last two years of high school through FLVS and it was perfect as an adolescent. It was what I needed to be surrounded by family, not by peers who had little morals and no respect for their elders or each other. I'm also in my 2nd year of college and had no problem with admissions. Sorry if you had trouble with that but that might have been the school's ignorance on the subject. Have a great day/night!

[@lese91]

Cuban&Jamaican Simmer Hello! Sorry if you misunderstood, I didn’t have any trouble with college admissions, I meant that it was shocking to be dropped into an environment so different from the same-ness I was accustomed to and I wished I had more interactions with diverse people at a younger age. The thing I think parents forget is that children aren’t your little minions to form into a clone of yourself, they’re individual humans who deserve to experience life from more than just their parents’ point of view and should be able to come to their own independent conclusions.

[@aerie1962]

My aunt, who taught elementary education at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI, would have loved this video. It's great that you are passionate about home schooling. Keep it up. God Bless!

[@hannahrosereviews5073]

I did FLVS. There was no standardised testing and i could pick my classes. It was awesome! Also, my mom could regulate what i was being taught by talking to my online teachers. I was homeschooled and i loved it!

[@vidhijani3402]

Isn't katie more interested in soccer than gymnastics and the video is really very helpful. Thankyou so much

[@BehindtheZoo]

She is interested in both.

[@katieclarke29]

Nice q &a guys here in jamaica we dont have home school but in about next year or so u can stay home and sit caribbean exam online bristish virgin island has done it for this year exams and u can stay home and study also so that kind of a home schol setting as u said if u dont understand anything u can used a website to do search when i didnt something i used go on teachers tube and it help so much it got me pass one of my caribbean exam as talk about public school u may not like a teacher or a subject i didnt like a subject when i was going high school i didnt understand info tech years later my mom said to me try the subject in caribbean exam she said to may u will enjoy the subject after i do enjoy it now and try to learn more about IT especially coding on other things

[@tinaclarke1846]

katie clarke just for secondary education adults who have left high school that complete high school with few subjects or may have fail can now do pay there exam fee and sit the exam at home can go there website and study by videos and animation seems cool

[@frankiecarrel1369]

I just wanted to say I love this Q&A homeschool with something that I always wanted to do with my son but I myself didn't get a good education and I was in school so I don't read well and I talk my text because I can't spell well at all and I didn't get caught in school because I have several palsy and they just thought kids in those days couldn't learn and I so miss not being able to read very well I'm trying to learn myself my reading books and I just wanted you to know I would rather watch your videos and a couple of other ones then watch TV these days because violence on TV I would rather watch something happy and enjoyable as to watch the violence God bless your little family and you guys are awesome Frankie

[@induratan1070]

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[@tegabrown2866]

I think if I was parent I would not want my kids be homeschooling. Become I think some people want to homeschooling there kids become they want spend time kids but u need to really u need to let your kids joy being kid. The best let your kids go to regular school let there be kids with homeschooling kids they have lot of classwork and homework with Virginia School they don't have lot homework like homeschooling. With Regular school they have Bookfair, field day field trip go to Resources like Music Art Library Computer class PE dress out for Gym Ride on the School bus first day of Picture of your kids go school shopping meet new kids and Teacher learn go to the Prom in School take Spanish class and Math learn Geometry and Social studies History. When parent adopt kids let go to Regular school. If I was adopt by couple I would not like being homeschooling become it boring. Homeschooling kids sit in homeschooling room all day doing with Regular school be around friend in stuff.