My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.

But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.

Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.

Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.

Everyone.

And I had a great time. I love that I skipped years and years more of child prison and I'm sure I'd have been one of the ostracized kids if I'd gone to high school, I was just too awkward and odd. Terrible adhd. Everyone there would have hated me.

It is completely possible to have a well adjusted homeschooled child, I have met plenty of them! Even if you just end up doing online school, please make sure they are enrolled in 2 activities a week with children of their same age. If you can afford it look into music lessons and find someone who can be an outside adult the child can trust, and something to fill the time when they are at home. My music instruments kept me from getting stuck in my head about my health issues, it gave me something positive to focus on and gave me a way to connect with others.

If he's not a musical kid find an art class, really any hobby would be good.

Try to focus on education when you can but take them to the park on warm days, and do book work when it is raining. Talk to your kid and invest time into their world as you explore whatever topics they come up with. When they start asking questions like "how do magnetic fields work" take them to the library and teach them how to find resources.

My parents pulled me for the fourth grade, and I was homeschooled until the end of high school. Nine entire years. They pulled me from the public schools for a perfectly reasonable reason — my mental health was in the toilet and I needed to be away from other kids who might hurt me as they had spent all of my third grade year doing. My mom has a fucking PhD in neuroscience and tutors math professionally. She was, during the ten years that my siblings and I were homeschooled, the best, kindest, most caring, understanding, lovely teacher you could ask for.

But I'm still broken. That's the thing about homeschool. You can have the best experience possible in homeschool and still come out a fundamentally broken person. My social development stopped at the age of 10. I'm a 22 year old adult woman with the social skills of a 10 year old. That's not to say that that COULDN'T have happened in public school, but being homeschooled only made it more of a certainty. Both of my siblings and I have fewer coping strategies on average than our peers with similar neurodivergencies because we basically did not live in the real world for a decade during key developmental years.

Don't ban homeschooling because of the religious nuts. There are plenty of them. Hell, I KNEW plenty of them. But there are also plenty of quote unquote "good" homeschool families. Ones that do everything you would hope the model homeschool family does. And they are still hurting their children, even if unintentionally, because homeschooling is an inhrently traumatic experience. It's isolating. For seven entire years of my life, I had no friends. Not because I was a social outcast, but because I didn't even SEE anybody regularly enough. But, nonetheless, I knew people. You generally do if you get involved in the community.

Ban homeschooling because it breaks and utterly destroys everyone who goes through it.

Everyone.

And I had a great time. I love that I skipped years and years more of child prison and I'm sure I'd have been one of the ostracized kids if I'd gone to high school, I was just too awkward and odd. Terrible adhd. Everyone there would have hated me.

We were also a religious, anti-vax family and it took me years to finally deconstruct the lies that I was fed. I have completely reeducated myself in the last 6 years and I really believe we need to give kids a middle option between homeschooling and regular school.

While I was able to learn at my own pace, there was no structure for most of my day until my parents came home(usually in a bad mood). We did do some homeschool activities over the years with other family's in the area and that really helped my social development, but I was so emotionally dysregulated the friends I had stopped talk to me when we graduated.

The last 6 years I have had to teach myself to connect into other people's inner worlds and how to conceptualize them as a whole individual. It's been exhausting and embarrassing to be an adult with the interpersonal skills of a child.

I couldn't dream of the future because I didn't get any help from my parents planning and dreaming for the life I wanted. We talked about when I grew up and got married but that was about it. Getting the motivation to do anything for myself has been awful.

Not getting to have any adult influences outside of the ones my parents approved of made it so that no one was catching the emotional neglect that happened within my home. All of the activities we did my mom would come along with us(often being the only time I saw her all week)I would reach for help and everyone knew my mom so they wouldn't believe that it was that bad. She was always around when others were around.

And that fucking sucked as a kid.

Like he has a whole separate wing in the atelier, multiple napping spots for comfort in that wing as well. More privacy, more peace, more quiet.

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