school did not prepare me for real life so I'm homeschooling my kids - ivy leagues are overrated

[@ashesrockstotaldrama]

I’ve never heard someone else express my thoughts out loud before…I know this isn’t the most popular video but I feel like I was meant to watch this video or something. I was considered gifted in school and I went to college and got a job a motion graphics designer which I didn’t hate but what I did hate was corporate and I also hated being paid 24/hr after having a degree. My husband and I want to try for babies and have the exact same thought processes as you in regards to homeschooling, as well as in minimalistic thoughts and also following our passions as a means for income rather than the degree. We have a real estate company but we haven’t had time to actually do anything with it but we just literally quit our jobs and we’re running off to Canada for the summer and Mexico and we will give birth in Mexico, gods willing, as a way to afford a better life for me and our future family….i don’t remember the point of this comment I just say all this to say that this video REALLY touched me and please just keep doing what you’re doing, follow your heart because you’re really helping people. I just saw you got your first sponsorship and I’m sure that external validation was huge! I just got my first sale on my Etsy shop after 2 weeks and although it was $3 it really made me feel like I didn’t make a mistake by quitting my corporate job. Tldr; thank you for being you and I haven’t resonated with someone like this irl, ever. You’re like the big sister I never had!

[@natashatheresa]

Thank you for sharing your story with me, it’s nice connect with kindred spirits out there, super thankful for KZbin bc of that! I’m excited for you and all you are planning to do!! Congrats too on selling on Etsy! Yes this has been a wild ride for both of us but we are meant for more! So keep doing what you are doing too!!! ♥️♥️

[@PreciousPamphile]

I am a homeschool mom teacher mom as well. I definitely agree kids don’t need to be in school for 7 hrs a day that’s ridiculous but think about it they aren’t at their desk doing focus work all day. It’s divided GYM, art, lunch reading library etc. but as homeschool parents we have to schedule and build rhythm-routine that makes sense for our home and family which is fabulous. For example I am chronically ill so I don’t have to homeschool early in the morning I can start anytime or day. I can do 6 hrs and that can be 3 days of school I loop so of our group work because my kids are different ages but it works. ❤ my kids can go to the park and do other activities while the public school kids are in school.

[@ccscatena]

I went to college to be a computer engineer and I am a computer engineer, so I do use my degree, meaning the piece of paper I got as a result, because it’s a requirement to get jobs, but most of the things I actually use on my job I could have learned from Google and KZbin, and a lot of it I did.

[@natashatheresa]

Thank you for sharing your perspective and for watching! That is quite interesting! I do appreciate that there are workplaces that don’t require formal degrees as well… and I know that Google actually offers various certificates that take a fraction of the time. I feel like there’s just a lot more options out there and with knowledges continuously evolving it makes sense that a lot of it would be readily available online.

[@ccscatena]

@@natashatheresa I agree, I wish no workspace would require a college degree, since I know there is nothing I use on my job that couldn’t be learned elsewhere.

[@jesseascriven]

As a fellow college grad, you are right on!! College has been grossly over rated. Especially the way a High School looks at trade schools being more or less a Consolation Prize.

[@natashatheresa]

like honestly i WISH i had went to school for a trade, they make great money out of the gate and work will always be plentiful, i could have gathered a whole bunch of good electricians together and just run a business that way lollll like - you better go to college or you'll be unclogging toilets like Johnny over there - well mom, Johnny makes $200 in an hour LOLLLLL

[@Blessedbears]

I agree with your statement of “they will find themselves much sooner”. So so accurate! I had so much crammed in my mindset to conform.. had to exit “the matrix” (so to say) so I could figure out who I was for real, what I wanted to do and then that also wasn’t set in stone as God had other plans. I love you shared this! I hope it spreads like wildfire.

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks love! I appreciate your support! Yeah it really is a whole Matrix lolll

[@Su-krosLily]

I was homeschooled and SO HAPPY my parents made that decision! I would have been so miserable in normal school. And y'know what im doing just fine👍🏻 The biggest thing is that i actually know how to learn. I think public school can steal your natural love of learning.

[@natashatheresa]

I feel like that’s exactly what happened to me… I hated learning/reading bc it’s not anything I was interested in lol! I’m so glad to hear homeschooling worked well for you! I can see it in my kids that whatever they are interested in, they take a deep dive and learn so much about it without me having to push them and that’s what I want, for them to love learning and to know HOW to learn whatever they want.

[@imviningatvwc7944]

I am a black woman who homeschooled all my three kids from day one. Two have graduated from college and the other graduates in May. I love who they have become as a person, and how they truly love Jesus !!

[@natashatheresa]

I love to hear this! And I think there's a misconception that if you homeschool, your kids won't be able to get into college if they want to go, but I know from other parents that this isn't the case! Thank you for sharing your journey!!

[@abc-pn2eb]

I don’t use my degree! College was only a negative experience for me based on the effects it had on my character development, drive, habits, etc. I would’ve been better off jumping into entrepreneurship. It’s crazy to think I would not know any of my friends from college though.

[@natashatheresa]

Yeah I think that’s the only thing I got out of college… a few friends but I only keep in touch with like 1 now hahahhaha. But I agree with you - I would have been better jumping into entrepreneurship too!

[@deersakamoto2167]

You'll enjoy reading Bryan Caplan, at least when it comes to education. He's an Econ prof so he did use his Princeton degree but he wrote the book "The Case Against Education" (2018) and he also homeschooled his kids. Many of his talks are available here on KZbin

[@natashatheresa]

Oh this is so great thank you I’ll check him out!!

[@loreeryan2348]

Taking your kids on all the errands teaches them so much about how to do all the regular things in life.

[@natashatheresa]

for real i wish i had learned more of this stuff when i was little hahahaha

[@Andrea_7783]

I did 2 years of med school but had to drop out because I couldn’t afford it. Anyway, medical stuff is my passion and nobody can prohibit me to learn, read and be up to date by myself. I don’t give medical advice to others but since I have some health issues myself, I come to realise that sometimes I even know more than doctors. I work as a supervisor in a hotel company, which isn’t my passion and I didn’t know anything about but you know what? I don’t really care, it pays the bills and that’s it. I can just learn about my real passion by myself haha!

[@natashatheresa]

Thank you for sharing your story! It stinks too b/c the cost of medical school and school in general is so exorbitant, and people who really would be so passionate about it aren't able to have access :(! And it's crazy too b/c in traditional medicine, they separate the different systems/parts of the body, but really, you have to learn how to treat a human body as a whole b/c it's all connected. Gastro will tell you one thing is wrong but endo will tell you it's something else, b/c they only focus on one part of the whole. Oh you have high blood pressure, here's a pill. But that treats the symptom and not the cause. I too have had some medical issues and when I went to the doctors, they really don't have any answers for me... come to find out, I was able to figure it out on my own just by researching and reading. But yes, at least you are able to continue learning on your own!

[@Andrea_7783]

@@natashatheresa yes, usually I think it was a blessing in disguise. Traditional medicine is very shortsighted and not everything is fixed with a pill. The most well educated and informed person I ever met in my life was actually an old lady that couldn’t even finish elementary school…..

[@natashatheresa]

@@Andrea_7783 for real! and most of the great innovators of our time were high school drop outs. Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, to name a few.

[@joannegui1970]

I knodded in agreement to a lot of your points...especially to the photographic memory/learningish portion. 😂😅HAHA I love the editing. I have an almost 3- year old son and im leaning strongly toward homeschooling him all for the same reasons you shared. Thank you for sharing your story ❤

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks so much for watching and I’m glad that my story resonated with you!

[@kll815]

Although some learning from a degree or public school may seem useless, school is not just about information being poured into a person’s head. Learning how to deal with people, plan and enact those plans, deal with defeat and frustration and triumph, experience reality, and more is what is learned in school and is difficult to learn in a vacuum and does not get absorbed in a KZbin video or by reading a book. Also, unless a person is shown a wide variety of topics, that person cannot know what they want, even if it is to not want a particular thing. Making mistakes is part of learning and being human, and it is much better to make those mistakes in school than in a career. I am not against homeschooling…I sometimes wish I could’ve done that, but I am against so many people saying their schooling was useless. A person would be way further back in life without the school experiences and practice if that person would look more critically at the skills gained versus specific knowledge points (for example, schooling has given you the ability to read and type, choose applicable search words, and decide which videos fit the information you are looking for information-wise).

[@kll815]

I do believe some adjustments need to be made to the system…but there needs to be a balance between self-directed and communal/group work…because we live in an interconnected social society with individual interests. A person cannot learn patience or perseverance without less than ideal circumstances. There is a definite social agenda at work in the school system that is harmful, and I do worry about the outcome in 20 years, especially because it is worrisome now. Have people been tricked into unfortunate degrees? Absolutely. But that doesn’t mean all education is bad…those tricksters should be shut down and education that will serve individuals and society should be encouraged. I would like to see more solutions being made available and worked through rather than tearing everything down. One way is to encourage more types of learning; trade schools are incredibly useful, and more education there might help shape up the engineers who can’t think practically, for example.

[@natashatheresa]

I love this thoughtful response, thanks!! I think my personal issue with the public school system is that in my experience a lot of it is wasted time lol. Busy work, a way to babysit kids while parents are at work loll. Yes it teaches you to read and write but also, as I mentioned in my video, my kids learned how to read even before they started school. I see the need for basic math and such but I feel like having to sit at a desk for 6 hours a day is not the best way to do it. I just feel there are better more efficient ways to school. That’s why I gravitated towards Montessori bc the kids had more autonomy and choice in what they would learn each day. But also I don’t think too that school needs to be synonymous with learning. Bc learning happens in every moment of every day… it doesn’t have to be in a school setting. So it’s not necessarily that I am saying schooling is all useless, I just feel like there are better ways to learn besides the traditional school system model. Also I speak as a person who was bullied throughout school. I do have my kiddos in a co-oP with other homeschool families a couple times a week and the environment there is so much more positive than a typical school environment. The kids have freedom to speak as they see fit and contribute much more to discussions rather than just being taught a bunch of stuff. But like I said this is just all based on my personal experiences and I’m not speaking for everyone. I just have had the best of both worlds. But if my kids wanna go to college or whatever, we will prepare them for it just not with the traditional school route. Thanks again for watching and for sharing your thoughts!

[@natashatheresa]

@@kll815 yes I love this. It would be great to be able to improve upon the current system if at all possible. It’s hard when the government is directly tied to it. But yes I agree regarding trade schools! They are looked down upon but the world will always need skilled labor and it can always be a gateway to something else if a person wants.

[@jayathome2898]

I was a nurse so yes I used my degree. I also stopped working to homeschool. There were pros and cons. The biggest pro was flexibility like you spoke of and self direction. The biggest con was pressure from other homeschooling parents to do things specific ways. Some people don’t have a choice to be able to homeschool. They need support to help their kids in after school time.

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks so much for sharing these insights!!

[@abc-pn2eb]

You’re incredible!

[@natashatheresa]

🫣🫣😘😘

[@jamiejanine4180]

THIS! Everything I’m thinking of doing for my son & experiencing for myself. I relate to this so much!

[@natashatheresa]

Doooooo iiiiiiitttttttt hahahhaa. Thanks for watching!!

[@kristyjo5745]

Very curious if you use a curriculum for the kids?! Unschool?! What's your philosophy you go by?!

[@natashatheresa]

No curriculum, definitely unschooling hehe. Thanks for asking!

[@JaniceIsLearning]

I love your honeymoon trip. My husband and I look for restaurants that have been on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives or any Food Network show when we travel.

[@natashatheresa]

Oh yes we love good food hahahaahhaa!! Thanks for watching!!!

[@barbkandel777]

Deposit - I love the pic with your long curls, it looks amazing! One of our daughters is not using her degree but she did follow her passions, after college, and is very well to do now. We actually told our children to find something they love to do and figure out how to get paid for it. Your points about public school are so valid!!! Work/School/Life balance is so important, and you guys are doing a great job, showing your children how to do it right. This is a great video! Thank you for sharing! ❤

[@natashatheresa]

Thank you for sharing about your own children!! And yeah gotta find the balance… still working on it hahahahhaa

[@barbkandel777]

@@natashatheresa I promise, you are way closer than you think. None of us are perfect, we just do our best and that is what your kids will see. :)

[@jop4112]

Homeschooling Black momma here in an intercultural marriage too. Public school and college graduate ( with a random 2 years in private school). We've homeschooled since the beginning. How is your experience finding community? I have enjoyed connecting with The Melanin Village. There are some really vibrant Facebook communities to bounce ideas off of too. I hope you are in an area with great co-ops, micro schools, family-centered and youth affirming activities, etc. I think every experience we have creates room for growth. I imagine the photographs from a person with an engineering background differs from those who haven't stretched those specific mental muscles. Finding what we don't like is sometimes essential in determining what we do like, finding what aligns with your gifting and interest. I'm so happy you have been able to unschool yourself and disconnect your school achievement with your current understanding of learning. Enjoy this beautiful journey in interest-led learning and cultivating lifelong learners. It is a gift to learn alongside our children.

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks for sharing your story and your resources! I appreciate it! We do have a co-oP here which has been great and I wil actually be teaching a class about investing and one about KZbin next semester which will be fun hahahaha And you are right, finding out what we don’t like is just as important as finding out what we do like. I appreciate you being here!

[@PassableParent]

Tasha- thank you for sharing your unique perspective and what works for you and your family with all of us! I Absolutely LOVED what you had to say🤍 hoping it can be an inspiration to others to make their own paths- whatever that looks like - and know they don’t have to blindly follow “the system” or a path laid out for them if they don’t want to!

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks so much Morgan! Here’s to making our own way and paving our own paths! ♥️♥️

[@kylreckamp]

Please keep making videos. I love your humor and content. ❤️ I will be home schooling my daughter and your video only made me feel even more certain with my choice. Thanks!

[@natashatheresa]

Hi thanks so much for your kind words and encouragement. It means a lot and I’m happy you are here. And yay for homeschooling!

[@TheGenflute]

I DO use my college degree...kind of? My degree was in music and I am currently the music director at a radio station. That said...I had a LOT to learn on the job about broadcasting and audiences and on air presentation and how programming a radio station is different than programming a recital...rights issues, reporting streams...so much! I have lots of fond memories of my college degree program and if money were no object, I know I'd get a LOT more out of going back for a Masters. But "worth it" is a big, big question. I was 48 when I paid off my student loans. I remember back in the day, calculating that I'd be 50 before paying them off and so, 2 years early was...great??? It was a huge weight lifted off my shoulders when that huge monthly payment wasn't a thing anymore. Ugh! I kinda can't believe we burden all our young, capable society members with that burden like it's no big deal! My hubby and I are doing everything we can to help our kids not have that debt. My older stepdaughter already paid off her student loans. The younger one is just a freshman in college, so we'll have to keep prepping for how that will work for her. Another degree would cost me SO, so much...and at this point in my life, I'd rather use that money for travel. So...there we are.

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks so much for sharing your own experiences with college and even with student loans! And yeah you def have to weigh out whether another degree would even be worth it... I agree with you, time to travel LOLLL!!!

[@neesiecieslak7869]

Hi Tasha. Yes,😀 I am utilizing my degree.

[@natashatheresa]

Yasssssss!

[@amandab.6815]

Your personality is hilarious 😂 I am in the same boat. I went to public school. Did really well in that system. Got scholarships to a big name school. I ended up getting my Master of Accounting and becoming a CPA for 3 years. Had my first baby, and then I decided to stay home and homeschool my kids. I am not currently using my degrees, nor will I be using them in the foreseeable future. However, I do have the joy of still paying off my mountain of student loan debt. Since 2020, we have been striving to become debt free. We are getting close! We also got into minimalism in 2020, and we have simplified so much! And we continue to peel back the layers. For us, minimalism and a debt free lifestyle have gone perfectly together. We love our homeschool life, and my kids and I are thriving. Baby number 3 will be here in a matter of weeks, so that will be a whole new adventure.

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks for sharing your story!! And yay for being on your debt free journey! I feel like minimalism just kinda helps fast track that bc you realize how much less you actually need and it’s easier not to spend random money hehehe. Congrats on baby number 3!!! And on thriving yesssssss

[@haii2521]

Loved listening to your perspective and I agree with so much of what you said. Now I have to go learn more about Montessori that sounds so interesting! Thanks for sharing 🤗

[@natashatheresa]

Yeah for sure check it out and thanks for watching!!

[@breatheinsimple5369]

I hated everything about my 5 year dual music/education degree. Waste of time and money and caused me SO much anxiety I still get anxiety thinking about it. I do teach piano but I could have done that without my degree. I homeschool my 10 year old. My 14 year old is in public school. He tried homeschool and he is just way too social and into friends and sports so he goes for that aspect. I am not pushing my kids the university route that is for sure!

[@natashatheresa]

Thank you for sharing!!! Yeah my whole schooling experience was fraught with anxiety. But I’m glad it works for your teenager!! I wonder if …. For me… if such an emphasis wasn’t put on grades, maybe I would have focused more on enjoying the experience of high school hahahahaha

[@breatheinsimple5369]

@@natashatheresa true! I always worried about keeping an over 80% average in University to keep my scholarship! I remember being in tears maybe times over the stress of that. My teen doesn't care about grades at all 😅 He is an average student and it doesn't bug him one bit.

[@lindaroyal8161]

Congratulations on your education and graduating Ivy League! DEPOSIT - yes, share with the group, please. How fun for a Honeymoon Road trip, great times and creating wonderful memories. Cool that you're self a taught photographer and prospered so well going in that direction. And now working part time in Real Estate while investing in property, good timing. I'd be interested in viewing your beginning You Tube Videos, if you'd care to share how they're titled. Thank you. I was not fortunate to continue to college after high school. I'm from an older generation and you married your high school sweetheart, which I did. I ended up being a single mom and home schooling wasn't done when my daughter was little. If, I had school age kids now days, I would certainly home school, I would be terrified to send my kid to school. I was fortunate after several random jobs, to get hired with the State of Florida as a clerk. I was able to work my way up with promotions and positions; to retire as a former Government Employee - woo hoo! Very impressive the journey you've had and getting to know you better, you're remarkable! I don't remember if you shared what type of work your husband does or how you met, assuming in college, if you'd care to share or answer in a future Q & A video. This was a very informative video and look into your life path with more yet to come - Bravo!

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks Linda for sharing your story too! I appreciate getting to know you better as well! For my beginning KZbin videos they are so long and boring lol! But if you go to my channel page on here, click on the video tab and scroll all the way down you should be able to see the earlier ones. Or actually after you click on the video tab, there are options to click latest, popular, or oldest, and you can click on oldest to see the bad beginning ones which is probably I’d say 50% of my videos lollll! Some of them I’ve taken off my page though bc they weren’t related to minimalism heheh

[@lindaroyal8161]

@@natashatheresa - I've seen all the beginning videos. When I 1st discovered your channel, I went back and binged all your videos. Loved the sense of humor and wanted as much as I could get! I thought maybe, you had another channel at one time, maybe prior to this one. TY

[@afrikantantes]

Great video! Could you please explain on how do you homeschool? I am a single mama (hi from Colombia💛) and just found your video. I really appreciate the insight you share here ❤😊Also, subscribed.

[@natashatheresa]

Thanks so much for being here! I'm glad you stumbled upon this video, so cool to have a viewer from Colombia!! I'll definitely dive more into homeschooling in future videos! But for now, if you are interested in what I specifically do, it's Unschooling... I don't follow a curriculum, I've just been teaching them through real life experiences. I do take them to a homeschool co-op twice a week so they have a few classes with other homeschooling families there which has been nice too. My main focus is financial literacy (especially investing and saving) b/c I feel like that's going to be one of the things that will help them to have a bright future no matter what.

[@afrikantantes]

@@natashatheresa Hi!! Thanks so much for replying. I'm looking that as an option, a or al least take some elements that may help. I definitely see what you tak about when it comes to kids needing more experiences and yours seem to be very outgoing. My goal is my son to get to be less shy and share more with people in a nice flowing way. Also, he is a TDA kid and it's been a challenge... Specially with maths. Thank you again, and I will look forward to your next videos!

[@natashatheresa]

@@afrikantantes no problem and it’s great to hear from you, see you on the next videos!

[@esther61374]

Nope! I only worked for a few years then had my 6 kids. Now that my youngest is 11 the question if I’m going back to work after the kids are older have started. Nope, my kids need me still. I will dress in rags and downsize housing to be the mom and grandma that is available for them.

[@natashatheresa]

Yessssssssss! Anddddd I feel like… I rather be the one spending the most time with my kids than having teachers be the ones who spend the most time with them each day. I want the most influence on them hahahahaha

[@OKBrickFamily]

Oh my gosh, I can SO relate to pretty much everything you said here! I’m so glad to have met you online and found your channel!!!

[@natashatheresa]

Yay I'm so glad to have connected with you too!!!!

[@amychen2504]

I wish I was like you

[@natashatheresa]

Girl I’m still trying to figure out my way lolllll ♥️♥️😘😘 thanks for watching!!

[@dizzyk54]

😝Great video

[@natashatheresa]

Thank you for watching!!!

[@natashatheresa]

How was school for you? Would love to hear from you!

[@seraphinasnape2377]

School was the hell for me. I am a little bit learning disabled, but nobody noticed it, i was only dumb. School destroys children so often , i am happy, that more parents think about it and changes it for their children. Here in Germany it is forbidden, that the kids are learning at home, but more parents fight for their children, so we have around 3000 kids in Germany, who learn at home.

[@youandmeandmultiplescleros402]

Tasha, I majored in English - which did not make my parents overly happy - but ended up as a technical editor and then manager for a research-and-development company. Was that a typical career move? No.... Would I do it all again ? Yes!

[@natashatheresa]

I love this! Sometimes you just gotta pivot and do what is best for you, which isn't always seen as ideal in other people's eyes. When i first started a photography business I definitely got the side-eye, but i was so happy and enjoyed it LOLLLLLLL

[@youandmeandmultiplescleros402]

So true! When someone is as creative as you are, it hardly matters what you study in school. 🎓

[@natashatheresa]

❤🤗😘

[@rachelt727]

PREACH IT!!!!

[@natashatheresa]

🤣🤣😘😘

[@wrvpgod2155]

In law school, I hope I use this degree lol

[@natashatheresa]

HAHAHAH - Oh yes for sure!! Especially if you are passionate about it, you will see it through and make good use of it! I wish you the best and I thank you for checking out this video!!

[@jamesandfamily1967]

Great video Tasha!

[@natashatheresa]

Thank you for watching!!

[@carlak6887]

i went to college to be a paralegal, I'm a homeschool mom now lol

[@natashatheresa]

👏🏽👏🏽😘😘

[@carlak6887]

and clearly i learned nothing from school because look at my grammar lol no capitalization at the beginning of the sentence not a punctuation at the end.@@natashatheresa

[@natashatheresa]

hahaha you're fine, that sounds just like my pop up text in my videos! @@carlak6887

[@hellosteph9206]

What a great discussion...the public school system does not make sense...I use my degree but could have gotten it through community college much cheaper. College is extremely overrated...and personally I think will crumble at the rate tuition is going

[@natashatheresa]

Yeah why is college so expensive… I lucked out that I had a lot of grants so my student debt wasn’t too bad but so many people basically have a mortgage to pay once they graduate and that’s not cool at all. I’m glad you at least are using your degree!

[@debbieg5543]

I do use my degree. I have a BA in social work and got my license, currently work as a hospice social worker.

[@natashatheresa]

Ooo thanks for sharing Debbie!! 👏🏽🥰

[@schultztrio1681]

I have never used my degree! We are encouraging our son to learn an actual trade. He is in the electrical program at the college while still in high school.

[@natashatheresa]

I love this! Bc there’s always a need for trades and then you can decide to do something else later on if you want or stay there. I know someone who was an electrician and then used that as a nest egg to start real estate photography!

[@Blessedbears]

No, not using college. Raising my ten kids! Best life ever! ❤

[@natashatheresa]

I am loving all these people coming to the comments with big families!!! Yesssssss ♥️♥️