Parenting

isn't the best possible paradigm.

On another social media site, someone I know who was a child in England in WWII, recently posted that most of those years she was simply out exploring the bombed out sites and just getting along. She honestly feels that she didn't really need to be in school all those years.

I'm inclined to agree. Okay, so I don't currently have young children who would normally be in school, but you still need to be thinking outside the box. Just do whatever "enrichment" stuff you can. The basics of "reading, writing, and arithmetic" are going to be there. And honestly? There's a fuck of a lot of boring repetition of those things. So read to your kids. Encourage them to read on their own. Have them explore their environment. Honestly? They'll be okay.

As a side note, I have long encouraged people to think about homeschooling their kids. Not because they should necessarily home school, but because thinking about it makes the parents give a LOT of thought into what they want for their kids.

When my first son was about a year old I thought I'd possibly home school. I realized pretty quickly that I'd be a TERRIBLE home schooling mom. Mainly because I had very little patience for the normal glitches or ordinary stumbling blocks that most kids will encounter. But I was very good at enrichment. So I continued doing that.

Back to the subject here. It's highly likely that most learning can take place in a far shorter time than is typical in standard schools. If you look at what a lot of home schooling people put out there, you'll see there are a lot of alternatives. Make at least one of them work for you.